Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro said that he is „more famous than Taylor Swift“ in the United States.
Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro said on Monday that he is “more famous than Taylor Swift” in the United States due to media coverage of him.
Maduro, during an event with members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) broadcast by his regime’s flagship propaganda television channel VTV, claimed that he finds himself “still surprised” to see coverage of himself in U.S. media. As such, he said that he feels “more famous” than Taylor Swift and other international artists.
“And I say, ‘Damn, I’m famous. I’m more famous than Taylor Swift in the United States right now, than [Colombian singer] Karol G. I’m more famous than Bad Bunny. I even want to record an album. To see if we can get some funding for more community council and commune projects with the sales from the album‘,” Maduro said, asserting that “I sing well — I mean, I don’t sing that badly.”
Maduro reportedly justified the surprise of his alleged fame by describing himself as “a boy from the neighborhoods of Caracas, born on November 23, 1962, and educated in the assemblies of the working class,” who today “causes so much irritation to the American empire.”
“What do they fear from me? If it’s not me, it’s a people standing up in battle, Bolivarian, chavista, masters of their own destiny, who will never be humiliated or surrendered, and who will defeat imperialism in the face of any threat it makes against our beloved homeland,” Maduro said.
The socialist dictator asserted to his audience that he is “attacked” by U.S. media because “the imperialist vision always personifies itself in one man,” and argued that “if they say all the extravagant things and lies that no one in the United States or the world believes, it’s for a reason.”
Maduro is actively wanted by U.S. authorities on multiple narco-terrorism charges and stands accused by U.S. courts of being a leader, if not the head, of the Cartel of the Suns, an international cocaine trafficking operation run by top members of the socialist regime and the Venezuelan military.
