President Donald Trump is set to hold a pivotal lunch meeting Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, a powerful signal that America is once again standing with freedom fighters against the brutal Maduro regime.
The meeting, scheduled for 12:30 PM in the Private Dining Room, marks a dramatic shift from the Biden years when Venezuelan dissidents were largely ignored while the socialist dictatorship tightened its grip on power. Machado, who has risked her life to oppose Maduro's tyranny, will finally have a seat at the table with a President who actually believes in liberty.
This is what real leadership looks like, folks.
While the legacy media spent four years covering for Biden's basement schedule and "lid" days, President Trump continues to demonstrate the tireless work ethic Americans elected him for – twice. His Thursday begins with an intelligence briefing in the Oval Office at 11:00 AM, because unlike his predecessor, this Commander-in-Chief actually wants to know what's happening in the world.
The day wraps up with a celebration of American excellence as President Trump welcomes the 2025 Stanley Cup Champions, the Florida Panthers, to the East Room at 4:00 PM. It's a fitting end to a day that showcases everything this administration represents: supporting freedom abroad and celebrating winners at home.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold her briefing at 1:00 PM – and you can bet she'll have more substance in fifteen minutes than Karine Jean-Pierre delivered in four years of stammering through binder pages.
The Machado meeting deserves particular attention. This is a woman who won Venezuela's opposition primary in a landslide, only to be barred from running by the Maduro regime. She represents millions of Venezuelans who are starving, fleeing, and dying under socialist rule. President Trump meeting with her sends an unmistakable message to dictators everywhere: America First means freedom first.
Will the mainstream media cover this meeting with the gravity it deserves, or will they find another way to spin Trump's defense of liberty as somehow controversial? Patriots already know the answer.