Columnist and frequent Fox News guest Kat Timpf argued that President Donald Trump had conducted a regime change in Venezuela, and it was not a war she was willing to send her son to fight.
“You have to see how some people might be feeling a little bit of whiplash here, given that Trump spent ten years railing against US-led regime change wars,” she explained to host Greg Gutfeld on Monday. “His own director of intelligence, as recently as two months ago, was railing against regime change war, and then he does one.”
“Let me get this straight: We go to a country, we capture their leader, we bomb it, & then we say we run this country now — and that’s not war. But when they send cocaine over here, that people are willingly snorting — that is war. That doesn’t make any sense.” pic.twitter.com/gukb98YiQo
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) January 6, 2026
Gutfeld pushed back, arguing that the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and strikes on Caracas did not amount to a regime change war. On Saturday, US forces stormed Maduro’s home, capturing the Venezuelan leader and his wife. The operations killed at least 80 people, including Cuban soldiers and Venezuelan civilians.
Timpf fired back, “Let me get this straight. We go to a country, we capture their leader, we bomb it, and then we say, ‘We run this country now.’ And that’s not war?”
In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, Trump said he anticipated sending troops to Venezuela to help rebuild the country’s oil infrastructure and set up a compliant government.
Timpf explained it would be a mistake to send young Americans to Venezuela to potentially be killed in the nation-building project. “For me personally, I’m not so confident that this is the one that this is not the regime change that’s finally going to work the way we say it’s going to work.” She added, “I would not willingly go die for it. I would not willingly send my son to go die for it. So I would think it would be hypocritical of me to call for other people to have to send their [children].”
Timpf, a popular right-wing political commentator, is one of the many in Trump’s base who have dissented from the President’s war in Venezuela. However, Trump said he was unconcerned about losing the support of his Make America Great Again Movement.
“MAGA loves it. MAGA loves what I’m doing. MAGA loves everything I do,” Trump said. “MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too.”
