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All right, well, we'll get to all of that, but let's start 2026. With tonight's first word. Well, happy New year again. It's 2026 and America is already roaring like a lion that just woke up from a four year nap under Biden. Have you ever been more proud to be an American than you were when you heard the details? That's right. Early Saturday morning, the news hit like a thunderclap. Delta Force, the very best. We have slipped in Caracas in the dead of night, snatched the narco terrorist Nicolas Maduro out of his fortified palace, blindfolded him and flew him straight to the USS Iwo Jima waiting offshore. Combat pilots lit up the key military installations on the ground to make sure nobody got any bright ideas about interfering. One night, zero American casualties. The illegitimate communist dictator who has been poisoning our streets, flooding our country with criminals and serving as a forward operating base for Russia, China, Iran and Cuba is now in a federal courtroom in New York City, where, by the way, he might feel right at home, given that Comrade Zohan Mandami is now running the place. But that's another story. President Trump warned Maduro weeks ago. Step down peacefully, go into exile, or the long arm of American justice will reach down from the sky and collect you. Vice President Vance put it best. Maduro is the newest person to find out that President Trump means exactly what he says. This wasn't some video game fantasy, folks. This was a high stakes, high risk warfare. We put our bravest in harm's way. Elite operators dropping into a hostile capital with a thousand things that could have gone wrong. One misstep, one lucky shot from a Cuban bodyguard, one unexpected Russian or Chinese reaction, and we could have been looking at a catastrophe. Secretary of War Pete Hexseth and our military planners threaded that needle with flawless precision. No American blood spilled. That's not luck. That's preparation, skill, and raw American courage. And don't think for a second the political risk was small. There is zero appetite in this country for new forever wars. Zero. If this had gone sideways and we needed to send in the Marines to extract our guys, the howling from the media and the squishes in Congress would have been deafening. But President Trump was ready. He told reporters afterwards that if things had heated up, the US Navy was steaming in with a quote, an armada like no one's ever seen before. He doesn't bluff. For months, Trump has been tightening the noose, squeezing Maduro's bank accounts, blowing up narco speedboats one by one, seizing illicit oil tankers. Kinetic strikes combined with crippling sanctions like a boa constrictor slowly crushing the life out of its prey. Then, when the moment was perfect, Delta Force cut the head clean off. Luck. Well, luck is for suckers and Democrats. Winners prepare relentlessly and seize the opportunity when it arrives. Only the Democrats are whining today and over the weekend. Shocker. Crying about international law and the Constitution while they ignore the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died from the fentanyl Maduro's cartel pipelined pumped right across our border. Everybody else who actually cares about this hemisphere security is cheering. We just sent the clearest message possible to every communist, narco, terrorist and guerrilla thug from Colombia to Cuba. Your days of using our backyard as a staging ground to wage war on the U.S. well, those are over. The Chinese delegation, They've got to be happy they were there posing for happy photos with Maduro just four hours before we bum rushed the palace. They watched American jets turn parts of Caracas into fireworks. And our operators grabbed their communist buddies like yesterday's garbage. You think Beijing's feeling more confident about invading Taiwan over that little demonstration? I don't think so. And in case anyone missed the symbolism, our pilots turned Hugo Chavez's gaudy mausoleum, that shrine to the dead dictator who took one of the richest countries in the hemisphere and turned it into a starving hellhole, where they turned it into a pile of smoking rubble, a fiery American middle finger, to 25 years of socialist tyranny. This operation reminds me of President Trump's daring strike on Iran's nuclear facilities back in June. Same high risk, same high reward. Calculated perfectly. Both times, failure would have wounded American prestige badly. Both times, flawless execution reminded the world that when America is led by strength, wars often end before they begin. Peace through strength isn't a slogan. It's reality when you have a president with the guts to back it up for a quarter century. Chavez, Maduro turned Venezuela into a hemispheric cancer, stealing American assets, exporting drugs, terrorists, slavery and chaos right into our country. Previous presidents, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden. They lacked the vision, the grit. Most of all, the backbone to do anything about it. We didn't need a new Monroe Doctrine. We just needed a new president. Watching Donald Trump juggle a dozen chainsaws while the rest of the political class can barely keep their balls in the air has been a revelation. The man is a multitasking genius on a level we've never seen before in the Oval Office. Folks. America is is winning again. I don't care what anyone says. Bigly, the enemies of freedom are now officially on notice in 2026. Well, it's just gotten started. And that's tonight's first word. All right, ten minutes past the hour, live from Studio six.
