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President Donald Trump ordered a "large standard strike" against Venezuela to seizure its leader and carrier him to nan United States, wherever his management plans to put him connected trial.
The U.S. Army’s Delta Force, an elite typical operations unit, led nan cognition to seizure Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a U.S. charismatic briefed connected nan matter told Fox News. The cognition has drawn reactions from those successful nan governmental arena arsenic good arsenic sports figures pinch adjacent ties to Venezuela.
Jhonattan Vegas, a Venezuelan golfer who competes connected nan PGA Tour, appeared to respond to nan events.
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Jhonattan Vegas of Venezuela looks connected from nan 18th greenish astatine nan 2025 PGA Championship 2025 Wentworth Golf Club Sept. 11, 2025, successful Virginia Water, England. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
"Long unrecorded Venezuela, DAMN IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL," Vegas wrote connected X successful a station translated from Spanish.
Vegas, 41, is classed No. 85 successful nan world. He had a historical tally astatine nan 2025 PGA Championship, becoming nan first Venezuelan to return nan lead astatine 1 of nan 4 awesome tournaments.
Vegas vanished 8-under par aft nan first 36 holes, placing him atop nan leaderboard astatine Quail Hollow Club successful Charlotte, North Carolina, successful May. He yet vanished nan awesome successful a necktie for 5th place.
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Vegas first took an liking successful play erstwhile he was conscionable 2 years old.
"As a kid, I would deed thing that I could find. Rocks, broomstick, everything," he told reporters aft nan opening information of past year's PGA Championship. "I would drawback thing that I could plaything and I would do it. Feel for illustration I was a bully jock arsenic a young kid, truthful that’s benignant of really things started.
Jhonattan Vegas lines up a putt connected nan 16th spread during nan first information of nan BMW Championship Aug. 14, 2025, successful Owings Mills, Md. (Rafael Suanes/Imagn Images)
"We grew up adjacent a nine-hole play people owned by nan lipid companies, and we had entree to a people and, positive nan emotion of my dada for nan game, put it together, and we started playing."
Once he reached his teens, Vegas near Venezuela and relocated to nan U.S. He learned English and later took his play talents to nan Texas Longhorns.
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Vegas further cemented his sanction successful history erstwhile he won nan Bob Hope Classic successful 2011, making him nan first Venezuelan to triumph a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. He besides represented his autochthonal state doubly astatine the Olympics.
On Saturday, Trump described Maduro arsenic being "highly guarded" successful a statesmanlike palace that was "a heavy fortified subject wall successful nan bosom of Caracas." Maduro had astir made it to a safe room wrong it, Trump told reporters, though "he was incapable to adjacent it."
President Donald Trump speaks astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, successful Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
In an question and reply earlier Saturday greeting connected "Fox & Friends Weekend," Trump said that American forces were equipped pinch "massive blowtorches," which they would person utilized to trim done alloy walls had Maduro locked himself successful nan room.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Chantz Martin is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
