Grok Chatbot Influenced Trump's Venezuela Invasion Decision

In December 2025, Trump met secretly with Elon Musk and spent hours consulting Musk's Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to capturing President Nicolás Maduro. Grok told Trump that Maduro was a deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. When celebrations followed the U.S. invasion on January 3, Trump reportedly called Grok ingenious. The Pentagon later confirmed Grok Gov was used to deploy and strike targets during the Iran War, and Musk has since been tapped to co-lead a Pentagon study on advanced battlefield technology.