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Trump Accuses Maduro of Imitating His Dance Amid US Raid Celebration

Trump claimed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's public dancing imitating his moves influenced the U.S. special forces raid that led to Maduro's capture and pending federal charges.

  • On Tuesday, President Donald Trump accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of copying his dance during a speech to Republican lawmakers at the Kennedy arts center and celebrated a U.S. special forces raid that captured Maduro and his wife.
  • Amid recent weeks of public performances by Nicolás Maduro, White House officials say his dancing and nonchalance persuaded some on Trump's team he was mocking U.S. threats.
  • Trump told lawmakers directly, `He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit` and accused Nicolás Maduro of killings and a torture chamber in Caracas without detailed evidence.
  • Firing the starting gun on the 2026 US midterms, Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to win and warned Democrats might seek impeachment, citing his January 20, 2025 pardons of nearly 1,600 January 6 rioters.
  • Maduro danced to a techno remix of Maduro's mantra as U.S. forces massed in the Caribbean in late 2025, while Donald Trump said `My wife hates when I do this.
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Diplomacy is a particular choreography and Donald Trump has learned to practice it in his own way. It is perhaps dance steps that definitely convinced the American president to conduct a raid against the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.Trump on Maduro: He's a violent guy. He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit. pic.twitter.com/b5uqbEpiqi—Acyn (@Acyn) January 6, 2026After the American intervention in Caracas, indisc…

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Washington, 6 Jan (EFE).- U.S. President Donald Trump scoffed this Tuesday about how the deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, captured by U.S. forces and prosecuted in New York, was dancing as the U.S. Administration intensified its threats against him, and assured Maduro “trying to imitate him.” https://holanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rss-ef72351d59-1ee4-47cc-8267-67e64ea2bdfb-hd-web.mp4 “He’s a violent guy. He gets on stage and tr…

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India Today broke the news in India on Monday, January 5, 2026.
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