The final straw that led to Maduro’s downfall: one more dance

“I was stealing Trump’s style and I had to go.” Inside sources say that Maduro’s frequent dancing convinced some members of Trump’s team that the Venezuelan president was ridiculing them.

On Friday night, the US president Donald Trump authorized an unprecedented attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the president Nicolas Maduroafter months of an escalation of military threats against the South American country.

However, according to two internal sources heard by , it was “Maduro’s habit of dancing in public” which was the breaking point for Trump. “It was one more dance step for the Venezuelan president”, says the NYT.

“The frequent public dances of Maduro and others gestures of indifference in recent weeks have helped convince some members of Trump’s team that the Venezuelan president was ridiculing them and trying to challenge what the believed it to be a bluff“, say two of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on confidential discussions.

Mature was recorded dancing in public several times in the days leading up to his capture, and was seen dancing on stage during a rally student to the sound of a music in defense of peacein Caracas, at the end of November.

It was also filmed at dance with a robot equipped with artificial intelligence at the Expo Motores Produtivos event, on December 22, less than three weeks before he was arrested, notes a.

Some analysts, including Dylan memorialexecutive editor of , suggested, maybe in jestwhich Trump, known for frequently dancing at his own rallies, was irritated with Maduro for having “stolen his style”.

“I was stealing Trump’s style and I had to go”, Goforth this Sunday in a social media post on the X platform.

It is then explained why Trump assumed with so much transparency that the reason for the attack on Caracas was: it would be diverting attention from the true and intolerable reason, according to sources from The New York Times: to have lost your exclusive… “Mad Dance”.

Maduro is currently in New York awaiting trial on drug and weapons trafficking charges.