Trump - Pirate of the Caribbean?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Trump has attacked a huge oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela - and when asked what would happen now to the oil responded “we will probably keep it". Is there actual strategy behind the piracy? Will it help him topple the illegitimate Venezuelan President Maduro? Or is it just about seizing assets? And what does Nobel peace prize winner Maria Machado make of Americas posturing?
Later, why is Tony Blair interviewing Shabana Mahmood at his own Xmas party? Is this a not too subtle endorsement? Or a friendly festive chat? Is the replacement of Keir Starmer now an open secret even in Blair circles? And who might the other contenders be?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | Well, thank you very much. It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. |
| 0:19.8 | As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast |
| 0:25.6 | of Venezuela, large tanker, very large. Largest whatever seized, actually. |
| 0:31.6 | Of course, it would have to be the largest tanker ever taken. But aside from the superlatives, this is serious. |
| 0:41.1 | What are the Americans doing? |
| 0:43.4 | Is this presaging an invasion of Venezuela? |
| 0:47.0 | The stakes could not be much higher. |
| 0:49.8 | Trump, just to clarify, has seized a tanker off the Venezuelan coast and appears to be about to take its oil. |
| 0:59.1 | Has he just become a pirate? |
| 1:01.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:07.2 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:09.1 | It's John. |
| 1:10.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:10.8 | And if you were playing this for laughs and you're right that Trump is behaving like a pirate, |
| 1:15.1 | and Venezuela is in the Caribbean, then is Donald Trump a pirate of the Caribbean? |
| 1:20.0 | But we're not playing this for laughs because it's actually deadly serious. |
| 1:23.5 | That is possible that America is about to declare war on Venezuela |
| 1:29.7 | with what as provocation. |
| 1:32.4 | We've seen the actions of the US military blowing up a series of fishing boats |
| 1:39.9 | that are allegedly carrying drugs on the most flimsy of legal explanation, |
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