even though the "Venezuelan people overwhelmingly voted for María Corina Machado in the opposition's October 2023 primary, giving her about 93% of the vote to be their candidate against Nicolás Maduro; however, the government barred her from running in the 2024 presidential election, leading her to support Edmundo González, who ran in her place and whom the opposition claims won the general election despite Maduro's declared victory in a vote widely seen as rigged"

Of course, what he meant was that she doesn't have HIS respect... or that she might not cooperate with the US looting their country's oil reserves... and besides that, she won the Nobel Peace Prize instead of him.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-venezuelan-opposition-leader-respect-govern-after-maduro/story?id=128868550