Trump Appears to Confirm Covert Ops While Media Appears to Forget History
The Hill dutifully reports that Donald Trump appeared to confirm authorizing CIA strikes in Venezuela, framing it as a novel admission. What they omit, of course, is the U.S. government's storied, bipartisan tradition of meddling in Latin American sovereignty. From the 1954 coup in Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs, to funding Contras in Nicaragua (Iran-Contra, anyone?), Venezuela is but the latest
chapter in a very long, very public playbook. It raises the question: is it 'news' when a politician confirms the sun rises in the east? This isn't about Trump's unique brand of indiscretion; it's about the media's selective amnesia, portraying systemic interference as a recent, single-administration anomaly. One might wonder if this collective forgetting serves to normalize constant intervention,
ensuring that 'covert operations' remain just opaque enough to avoid sustained public scrutiny – until the next president 'slips' and the cycle of manufactured outrage (and forgotten history) begins anew.