Reports attributed to Time say Trump consulted Grok during a private Oval Office meeting with Musk in December 2025, asking how Venezuelans might respond if the United States captured Maduro. Both accounts say the chatbot’s answer portrayed Maduro as deeply unpopular and predicted that many Venezuelans would welcome his removal.¹

The Brazil Right account treats that reported assessment as broadly consistent with what followed. It says street celebrations occurred after the mission the following month and reports that Trump was impressed by Grok’s capabilities. Its framing centers on the chatbot’s apparent reading of Venezuelan public sentiment rather than on whether AI should play a role in such deliberations. “Many Venezuelans would probably celebrate his fall,” Grok reportedly told Trump, according to an official cited by Time.¹

The Brazil Left account accepts the same basic chronology but places it in a more politically charged setting. It says Trump’s questions came while he was ordering missile attacks on Venezuelan vessels that the United States alleged were carrying drugs. In that account, the Grok exchange was not merely an assessment of public reaction; it was part of an escalating confrontation in which the president sought AI guidance on a sensitive geopolitical scenario.²

Crucially, the left-leaning report also stresses a limit on the available evidence: Time did not establish that Grok’s response caused the decision to authorize the mission, or that it was decisive. The account describes the link as temporal and based on a participant’s recollection, while arguing that the meeting reflects Trump’s wider interest in AI and technology executives’ increasing access to his administration.²

Neither account reports a White House response to the underlying Time report. Their common factual premise therefore remains a reported, not independently confirmed, account of the meeting and its influence.