Trump: Maduro 'Doesn't Want to F**k Around with US'

President Donald Trump just lit a fire under Venezuelan thug Nicolás Maduro, dropping a live-on-air bombshell that cuts through the swamp like a chainsaw.

" [Maduro] has offered everything," Trump declared Friday. "You know why? Because he doesn't want to f*** around with the United States."

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The blunt threat exploded during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as reporters grilled Trump on his escalating showdown with Caracas.

Broadcasters scrambled to apologize for the live-air expletive.

The outburst came amid fresh bipartisan pushback in the Senate.

A group of lawmakers introduced a War Powers Resolution Friday to block Trump from "engag[ing] in hostilities" in Venezuela.

The move followed Trump's Wednesday disclosure that he authorized CIA operations inside the country and mulled land strikes after U.S. forces hit drug cartel boats off Venezuela's coast.

Maduro fired back with military drills and thousands of troops massed near the Colombian border since August.

Reports hinted at more deployments Thursday after this week's strikes.

"I'm extremely troubled that the Trump Administration is considering launching illegal military strikes inside Venezuela without a specific authorization by Congress," Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in a statement. "Americans don't want to send their sons and daughters into more wars—especially wars that carry a serious risk of significant destabilization and massive new waves of migration in our hemisphere."

Kaine urged action.

"If my colleagues disagree and think a war with Venezuela is a good idea, they need to meet their constitutional obligations by making their case to the American people and passing an Authorization for Use of Military Force."

The resolution drew support from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

"The American people do not want to be dragged into endless war with Venezuela without public debate or a vote," Paul said. "We ought to defend what the Constitution demands: deliberation before war."

The measure faces steep odds in the Republican-controlled Senate, which holds 53 GOP seats.

A similar bill co-sponsored by Paul and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., to bar U.S. force in the southern Caribbean Sea without congressional approval, failed last week.

Only Paul and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, crossed lines to support it.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly blasted the effort.

"As Commander-in-Chief, the President has acted within the laws of armed conflict to protect our country from those trying to bring poison to our shores," she told Fox News Digital. "It is obscene that these lawmakers would try to run cover for evil narco-terrorists as over 100,000 Americans die from overdoses every year—President Trump is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice."

Democrats demand proof on the boat strikes targeting Tren de Aragua, labeled a foreign terrorist organization this year.

Venezuelan officials insist victims in at least one attack were not cartel members, Reuters reported last month.

Tensions boil as Trump ramps up pressure without formally vowing regime change.

His first term saw him recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's president after Maduro's disputed 2019 inauguration.

Subsequently, Caracas severed ties, shuttered its U.S. embassy and expelled American diplomats.

The U.S. hit back with sanctions and a $15 million bounty on Maduro for narco-terrorism.

Then-National Security Adviser John Bolton warned "all options" were on the table, including military force.

Now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the policy's driving force, branded Maduro's crew "a transnational criminal group."

In a 2019 X post, Rubio warned: "Maduro and his cronies aren't politicians motivated by the national interests of a country, they are gangsters motivated by a desire to keep their illegal sources of income. We must consider every option available to us to bring to an end their lucrative criminal activities."

Maduro clung to power through another sham 2024 election.

Diplomatic channels stay cut. The U.S. bounty on him now tops $50 million.

Trump deployed warships to the Caribbean and sank at least five cartel-linked boats.

In the Oval Office Wednesday, Trump defended the CIA green light.

"We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea, so you get to see that, but we're going to stop them by land also."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hammered home the stakes noting Thursday, "President Trump believes that Nicholas Maduro is an illegitimate President leading an illegitimate regime that has been trafficking drugs to the United States of America for far too long, and we're not going to tolerate it."

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In a city gripped by partisan gridlock, one fact stands clear: Trump's vow to crush Maduro's narco-empire tests Congress's war powers like never before.

Will lawmakers rein him in, or let the strikes escalate? The answer could reshape America's footprint in the hemisphere.