Trump ready to meet Maduro shock horror!

It didn't take the White House long to shove out an instant clarification when Donald Trump appeared to say in a TV interview that he would be prepared to meet Nicolas Maduro, the thuggish alleged leader of Venezeula. Trump didn't say he was thuggish although pretty well everyone else in the universe does. Except For Vladimir Putin of course. Putin supports Maduro and his regime but surely even the Russian leader must realise that the Caracas dictator has single-handedy destroyed the Venezuelan economy and driven his population, bar the military and police and his family, into poverty and desperation. Anyway Trump thought it might be a good idea to have a chat with Maduro, forgetting perhaps that the US Justice Department recently charged the Venezuelan former bus driver turned Hopeless/Dangerous Politician with narcotic trafficking. It's Trump style to suggest meeting with all kinds of people on the basis that it is better to talk than to ignore and threaten which is a perfectly legitimate and sensible way of doing business with foreign leaders. So Trump set out to contact and make friends with, among others, Kim Jong-un who has turned out to be the most unreliable "friend", Xi Zinping who regards friendship with Trump as just a piece on his chess board manoeuvring, and Putin who I think believes very strongly that he is better and stronger than Trump and can therefore play him along to his advantage. You would have thought that his experiences with these three gentlemen might have put Trump off the idea of being nice to foreign chaps. But suddenly he put Maduro on his list of potential Zoommates, implying that he didn't think much of the other chap in Caracas, Juan Guaido who theoretically is regarded as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. Anyway the name Maduro had hardly passed Trump's lips when the White House and the whole of Florida, filled with Venezuelan immigrants who had fled their country, made it abundantly clear what they thought the president had actually said or had actually meant to say which was that the only possibe reason for the two men to meet was for Trump to grab Maduro by his shirt collar and get his Secret Service detail to hurl him out of the country. Or words to that effect. But a friendly face-to-face chat between Trump and Maduro in which the weather and democracy would be discussed ? No, sir, that was out of the question. Florida of course is an absolutely key state for Trump to win for his reelection, so even a hint of a session with Maduro would lose the president hundreds of thousands of votes. No wonder the White House was so lightning-fast to issue its clarification statement. Leave the chatting with Maduro to the FBI if they ever get their hands on him.