Trump claims Maduro willing to give ‘everything’ to ease US tensions

<p>President says Venezuelan counterpart ‘doesn’t want to fuck around with the United States’</p><p>Donald Trump used an expletive to threaten the Venezuelan leader, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nicolas-maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a>, on Friday, claiming that the leftist autocrat had offered major concessions to appease the US.</p><p>The US president was speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/trump-putin-phone-call-sinks-kyiv-ukraine-hopes-for-us-tomahawk-missiles">during a meeting</a> with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/trump-maduro-venezuela">Continue reading...</a>