The United States is not talking about regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump says as the US orders an additional 10 stealth fighter jets to a growing military build-up in the Caribbean.

"We're not talking about that, but we are talking about the fact that you had an election which was a very strange election, to put it mildly," Trump said on Friday, referring to the contested 2024 election the Venezuelan government claims President Nicolas Maduro won.

Trump had been asked by reporters about a claim made by Maduro this week that the US was "regime change through military threat". Maduro repeated the phrasing later on Friday.

"The government of the United States should abandon its plan of violent regime change in Venezuela and in all of Latin America and respect sovereignty,

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