Trump Claims 'Discombobulator' Used to Capture Maduro

Monday, January 26, 2026

The president may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn't exist, a senior US official told CNN.

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President Donald Trump said US military forces used a weapon that he referred to as "the discombobulator" during the US operation in Caracas to remove former Venezuelan President NicolÃ¡s Maduro from power.

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-- Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) Jan 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM

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Stinky's talking out of his Putin-gaped ass again.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-25 09:02 AM | Reply

Trump's getting bad press in Minnesota, so he's bragging about something again.

At least he's not shooting us down in the streets.

No, wait...

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-25 09:10 AM | Reply

Dummkopf Trumpf may have been stupidly referring to either the "StunRay" blinder or the "Dazzler," a portable handheld Directed-Energy Weapon (DEW) that induces nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and temporary blindness in living creatures by scrambling their brain cells.

The USSS have these non-lethal DEWs in their arsenal, so the FBI, Delta Force, the USN Seal Teams does too.

In the 2 May 2011 US commando raid to "capture" Osama Bin Laden, a Seal Team Six member did not deploy such a DEW against him and killed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks before he could face justice in SDNY.

"The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, says the fact that Osama Bin Laden was unarmed when he was killed left him with a "very uncomfortable feeling."

The Russians and Chinese have versions of these DEWs as well. The "Havana Syndrome" may have been caused by a portable DEW using high-frequency microwaves: Russian DEWs

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-25 11:41 AM | Reply

One remembers the CIA actions in regards to LSD and other drugs, torturing American 'subjects' in order to find the best way to torture people. One wonders who is being tortured these days.

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-26 08:08 AM | Reply

They could have just blasted one of his speeches over a loud speaker to the same effect.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-26 08:16 AM | Reply

Are you sure US forces didn't use a version of Bullwinkle's stinky pie to knock out all those guarding Maduro? It's worked before?

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2026-01-26 08:22 AM | Reply

The device was tested the white house in early '25 and proved successful.

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2026-01-26 08:22 AM | Reply

There were discussions in the Pentagon during the Iraq war about using these weapons. Specfically the ADS and LRAD. Lawyers deemed them inhumane and would violate the Geneva Convention. Coming to a protest soon I suspect, ethics be damned. Although I would rather get a directed energy blast than a 9 mm in the back.

#8 | Posted by mattm at 2026-01-26 08:43 AM | Reply