Wild footage of Maduro 'booty bumping' just days before arrest and kidnap re-emerges online

Footage of Nicolas Maduro 'booty bumping' just days before he was arrested and deposed has re-emerged online.

The Venezuelan president and his wife were captured via a US military operation from their home on a military base on Saturday.

They were taken aboard a warship to face prosecution for a Justice Department indictment accusing them of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy.

Donald Trump initially said America would run Venezuela until a transition of power can take place.

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” the US president said during a Mar-a-Lago news conference.

He boasted that 'the extremely successful operation should serve as warning to anyone who would threaten American sovereignty or endanger American lives'.

Just days prior to his capture, however, Maduro was seen dancing to 'No crazy war' on state TV.

This is real footage of Maduro rapping "No crazy war!" and doing a booty bump with his wife on national TV in Venezuela just days before the US attacked pic.twitter.com/1a2n4ok3Ia

— Wayne Hsiung (@waynehhsiung) January 4, 2026

Sources told The New York Times that Maduro's dancing was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

It was said to have persuaded the Trump administration to carry out their military strike on the president, who was thought to be mocking previous threats.

According to 'several Americans and Venezuelans involved in transition talks', Maduro rejected an ultimatum from Trump to leave office and go into a gilded exile in Turkey in late December.

Vice president Delcy Rodriguez, who is currently in charge of Venezuela, has said to have impressed Trump officials by allegedly agreeing to allow future American energy investments.

“I’ve been watching her career for a long time, so I have some sense of who she is and what she’s about,” one official said.

“I’m not claiming that she’s the permanent solution to the country’s problems, but she’s certainly someone we think we can work at a much more professional level than we were able to do with him.”

On Instagram, she wrote: "We invite the US government to collaborate with us on an agenda of cooperation oriented towards shared development within the framework of international law to strengthen lasting community co-existence."

It comes after Trump warned that if 'she doesn't do what's right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro'. Although, he said he thinks Rodriguez is 'willing to do what we think is necessary'.

Maduro, who is charged with drug trafficking and weapons offences, is currently being held in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre (MDC), previously home to the likes of Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Ghislaine Maxwell and Sam Bankman-Fried.

He faces an arraignment hearing at midday today (5 January) at around 5pm local time, at which charges will be read to the accused as they are invited to enter a plea.

His charges include Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machine guns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machine guns and Destructive Devices against the United States.