{"id":3633,"date":"2026-08-31T22:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:40:47","slug":"trumps-latest-vanity-project-emulating-a-persian-gulf-oil-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Latest Vanity Project: Emulating A Persian Gulf Oil Monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Trump administration is demanding that Venezuela hand over control of more than a dozen of the country\u2019s vast oil fields, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/27\/trump-venezuela-oil-deal-talks\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to reports from Axios<\/a>. If the deal moves forward, the U.S. federal government would take ownership of the fields and would hand operational control to private oil companies. In response, <strong>Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen\u2019s Energy Program<\/strong>, issued the following statement: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are demanding Venezuela turn over ownership of more than a dozen Venezuelan oil production fields to the United States federal government. If this comes to pass, Trump will likely transfer operational control to U.S. oil companies, opening the door to Trump\u2019s typical bilateral transactional corruption, bestowing lucrative opportunities for the oil companies he chooses to reward. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the nearly eight months since Trump\u2019s illegal January 2026 Venezuelan invasion, the Trump administration has managed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/07\/us\/politics\/congress-trump-venezuela-oil-constitution.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$13 billion slush fund<\/a> gleaned from its control over Venezuelan oil sales, with zero transparency, and little to no public oversight or accounting. The President has no authority to negotiate a deal where the federal government takes control over foreign oil production facilities, and Congress must intervene and put an end to Trump\u2019s oil fueled imperialism. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump hasn\u2019t been shy about expressing his admiration of Gulf Monarchs\u2019 oil slush funds, and his effort to establish a South American kleptocracy is an outrage. There\u2019s been no improvement in human rights in Venezuela, so Trump\u2019s move is further evidence that his illegal actions in Venezuela are all about controlling oil with no public accounting, transparency or oversight. This is yet another Trump gift for Big Oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is demanding that Venezuela hand over control of more than a dozen of the country\u2019s vast oil fields, according to reports from Axios. If the deal moves forward, the U.S. federal government would take ownership of the fields and would hand operational control to private oil companies. In response, Tyson Slocum, director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}