Trump Reveals Secret Weapon Used in US Operation to Capture Maduro

‘We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked,’ Trump told the New York Post.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling from Shannon, Ireland, to Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Jan. 22, 2026. Mandel Ngan /AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump has revealed that U.S. forces used a secret weapon to disable Venezuelan military equipment in the Jan. 3 operation that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Post published on Jan. 24.