Trump’s Dollar Dominance Strategy: Venezuela, Iran and Russia

Dollar dominance is essential in everything President Trump is doing here.

If you look, the new Venezuela is invoicing in dollars.

They're coming back onto the dollar system.

They've been sanctioned. They were not allowed to translate or to transact in dollars.

And now the dollar is going to be the centerpiece of their trade.

They were selling discounted oil to China and not getting dollars.

We're seeing in the Iranian negotiations, the Iranians will be invoicing in dollars.

So everything we are doing is pushing the dollar back.

It's never left as the centerpiece for the global currency system, but we're reinforcing it.

You know, I would anticipate when the Russia-Ukraine conflict ends, that Russia will want to come back in the dollar system because, again, the dollar, it's our liquidity, it's our capital markets, it's the depth and breadth.

Everyone wants to be here. And I think many times, the great thing about the United States is we course correct when we go too far one way or the other.

And I think we should not be shy about flexing where we have advantages and where we have disadvantages on those who are not aligned with us.