Threatening to block Exxon-Mobil from a country their CEO has referred to as ‘univestable’.

Now that’s what I call an empty threat.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/donald-trump-threatens-block-exxonmobil-venezuela

Go ahead Don, make my day.

I thought Donnie was sending the big boys in to steal oil rebuild Venezuela's infrastructure...

3 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I thought Donnie was sending the big boys in to steal oil rebuild Venezuela's infrastructure...

Exxon had their assets nationalized twice and are not interested.

Trump went in without a plan. Now he is trying to extort a Nobel medal for the presidency. Unbelievable!

21 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Now he is trying to extort a Nobel medal for the presidency.

That would be like getting a Marathon completion medal when you register? Not at the end because that is too much work.

4 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

That would be like getting a Marathon completion medal when you register? Not at the end because that is too much work.

He loves his participation trophies, or even non-participation golf awards.

30 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Exxon had their assets nationalized twice and are not interested.

Trump went in without a plan. Now he is trying to extort a Nobel medal for the presidency. Unbelievable!

He still crying out in the press conferences what the Norwegian did to him, he will not get over it.

Exxon knows there comes a day when Trump is not president anymore.

When Bush went in to Irak, they whole business was ready and prepared, cant say they are this time.

Exxon's reply was "Oh no Mistuh President. Please doan throw us in dat Briuh Patch."

Has Trump just pulled off the most brazen oil heist in history? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist’s Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor talks to Ethan Wu and Mike Bird, co-hosts of The Money Talks podcast, about why America might never benefit from Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.

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On 1/12/2026 at 1:43 PM, Chomper Higgot said:

Threatening to block Exxon-Mobil from a country their CEO has referred to as ‘univestable’.

Now that’s what I call an empty threat.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/donald-trump-threatens-block-exxonmobil-venezuela

With XOM pumping almost a million bpd of readily usable oil from their vast investments in neighbouring Guyana, I'm sure they're deeply upset at being blanked by Trump on Venezuela's huge but mostly unrecoverable reserves.

On 1/12/2026 at 8:10 AM, unblocktheplanet said:

I thought Donnie was sending the big boys in to steal oil rebuild Venezuela's infrastructure...

It's better to get cheap Venezuela labor to do it, under the supervision of US "advisors." 🙂

You guys want to know the "Exxon Logo Conspiracy?"

XX = the double cross = what they do best

15 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

It's better to get cheap Venezuela labor to do it, under the supervision of US "advisors." 🙂

Just like Vietnam! Won't be any popular resistance!

1 hour ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Just like Vietnam! Won't be any popular resistance!

They will supply local jobs, while keeping all the big profits.