Don: I’d meet Maduro only to discuss his exit

President Trump said on Monday that he would be happy to meet with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro — but only to get him to step down.

“Unlike the radical left, I will ALWAYS stand against socialism and with the people of Venezuela. My Admin has always stood on the side of FREEDOM and LIBERTY and against the oppressive Maduro regime!” Trump tweeted.

“I would only meet with Maduro

to discuss one thing: a peaceful exit from power!” Trump added.

The United States is among the nations that do not recognize Maduro (inset) as the leader of the South American country and have thrown their support behind opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

The tweet clarified comments Trump made in an interview published Sunday night by Axios in which he said he would be open to sitting down with the authoritarian Maduro, who was charged earlier this year by the Justice Department with drug trafficking and narco terror. “I would maybe think about that . . . Maduro would like to meet,” Trump told Axios in an Oval Office interview last Friday. “I’m never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings.

“I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I’ve turned them down.”

In the interview, he also appeared to be cooling on Guaidó after a debate he had with aides.

“I think I wasn’t necessarily in favor, but I said — some people that liked it, some people didn’t,” Trump said. “I was OK with it. I don’t think it was, you know, I don’t think it was meaningful one way or the other.”