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Greenland, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran, and more: After Maduro’s capture, right-wing media encourage escalating US involvement around the globe

Written by Sophie Lawton

Research contributions from Helena Hind

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Following the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, right-wing media figures are pushing for the Trump administration to next target other countries — including Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico — and even to take Greenland from Denmark, a NATO ally.

President Donald Trump has publicly contemplated further military action against other countries such as Colombia and Cuba. In recent interviews, both Trump and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller have pushed for the United States to take over Greenland for security and mineral resources. Trump’s suggestions of nation building in Venezuela and possibly more countries are a shift from MAGA’s seemingly isolationist policy platform, and the military actions in Venezuela have caused a split in the right-wing base between those against foreign interference and “America First” isolationism. 

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  • Fox News hosts and guests cheered Trump’s suggestions that he could escalate America’s involvement in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Iran

    • Fox News host Trey Gowdy said: “If we think that Venezuela is the stopping point, you don’t know Donald Trump or Marco Rubio very well. Other countries — hint, hint, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia — you better be on notice because he’s going to clean up this hemisphere.” [Fox News, America’s Newsroom, 1/5/26]
    • Fox News legal editor Kerri Kupec Urbahn appeared on The Faulkner Focus and claimed, “This is just the beginning. … Everyone is on notice now. The other countries who have also been victims of Maduro's regime but also the gangs that he has been allegedly collaborating, conspiring with, what are they thinking? I would be pretty worried if I were them.” [Fox News, The Faulkner Focus, 1/5/26] 
    • On The Five, co-host Emily Compagno stated, “Everyone losing their hair and their mind over our commander in chief saying, yeah, you know what? You’re next. Why wouldn't they be cheering?” The Fox chyron read: “Trump puts Colombia, Cuba, Greenland & Mexico on notice.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/5/26]
    • Fox host Jesse Watters said “Cuba could be next.” Watters also suggested that the United States needs oil from Greenland “more than they do” and said that “Denmark better wise up.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/5/26]
    • Greg Gutfeld on The Five claimed, “You do Venezuela so you don't have to do Mexico. You start small. And you send a message. You work your way up the ladder to the big stuff and who knows, you may not have to do it because, as you see, people will start cooperating.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/5/26]
    • Guest Matthew Heath told America’s Newsroom anchor Dana Perino that Trump “is calling attention to Colombia, Iran, Cuba right now. I think our attention should be on Mexico.” [Fox News, America’s Newsroom, 1/5/26]
    • On The Story with Martha MacCallum, former DEA agent Jim Shedd spoke about Colombia being the next target for American military involvement, saying, “Colombia produces a large quantity of heroin that has to be moved out to the Pacific or moved through Venezuela to get it out of there.” Shedd went on to criticize Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, complaining, “He has allowed the coca fields to just grow and grow and grow, so the production of cocaine in Colombia is out of control.” [Fox News, The Story with Marth MacCallum, 1/5/26]
    • Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade remarked, “We’ll see if Cuba is next, because Cuba is now out on a life raft literally by itself. No more free oil and Mexico’s not supplying them anymore and Venezuela’s cut them off.” Co-host Lawrence Jones replied, “It may not even need the United States for them to go down, it looks like they’re already on that path.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/6/26]
    • Fox host Will Cain: “If you fly a flag in the Western Hemisphere, that flag might be soon the stars and stripes.” [Fox News, The Will Cain Show, 1/6/26]

  • Other right-wing media sources also pushed for Trump to target other countries

    • MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson celebrated “Pete Hegseth, Raisin’ Caine, and Marco Rubio all taking to the podium to laud the American military and to talk major smack to other world leaders and saying if you don't think that Donald Trump is a man of his word, get ready, buckle up, FAFO.” Johnson then claimed, “Marco Rubio is saying this is your warning to places like Cuba and Colombia … so people are celebrating. People are loving this.” [The Benny Show, 1/3/26]
    • Johnson also praised Trump’s statement that “something is going to have to be done with Mexico,” saying, “Way to go. I'm here for it. I want more communists in helicopters … being taken in the dark of night and being brought to justice.” [The Benny Show, 1/3/26]
    • Steve Bannon’s War Room guest Javier Negre said, “With the fall of the Venezuelan regime, we will learn which other players are involved in drug trafficking, international terrorism, business … I think that after [Venezuela] we can see peace and freedom in countries like Cuba, like Brazil, like Colombia.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 1/3/26]
    • War Room guest and podcast host Jack Posobiec said the U.S. should “go Pablo Escobar” on “every single one of these cartels and to the people like the president of Colombia and [President Claudia] Sheinbaum down there in Mexico,” adding, “You will work with the United States or you will get Maduro’d.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 1/3/26]
    • Rudy Giuliani claimed that the people of Venezuela are happy for U.S. capture of Maduro “just like the people of Iran want to be out from under the crazy Islamic Quran nutty theocracy. So we’re getting there. Piece by piece.” [America’s Mayor Live, 1/3/26]
    • Tim Pool: “We should have Greenland.” On Timcast IRL, Pool elaborated, “Now, if you want to argue that Trump going to Nuuk and just massacring civilians to seize territory is a bad thing, agreed. But Trump negotiating terms that brings Greenland into the American fold is a good thing.” Later in the show, a panelist said that, “Let's think outside the box. Let's go Liberia 2.0. We move, Greenland. We make it like the Black ethnostate. It'd be a great thing, I think.” The panelist then suggested having “Flava Flav as prime minister” and renaming Nuuk to Wakanda. [Timcast IRL, 1/5/26]