US President Donald Trump has revealed details of a mystery weapon he has coined 'The Discombobulator,' that was used in the capture of Venezuela's former leader Nicolás Maduro.
In an interview with the New York Post he revealed the tool's name just days after he gave hints about the sonic weapon that 'nobody else' had.
Trump has suggested that the debilitating device could be used against America's enemies after proving successful in the January 3 capture of Maduro.
'I'm not allowed to talk about it,' Trump told the New York Post from the Oval Office. 'I would love to.'
He offered that the weapon 'made [enemy] equipment not work' and lauded its effectiveness.
'They never got their rockets off,' Trump said. 'They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off.'
He added: 'We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.'
Venezuelan officials said more than 83 people, including 47 soldiers, were killed during the successful capture mission.
Earlier this week, Trump demurred while lavishing the strength of the US military during an interview with NewsNation anchor Katie Pavlich on Tuesday.
He said that only the US military has access to the sonic weapons by noting, 'It's something I don't wanna… nobody else has it.'
When Trump was asked if Americans should be 'afraid' of the secret weapon, he responded: 'Well, yeah.'
'But we have weapons nobody else knows about.' Trump added. 'I say it's probably good not to talk about it, but we have some amazing weapons.'
An account previously shared by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on January 10 also claimed that a 'very intense sound wave' disabled Venezuelan forces and Cuban bodyguards on the night of Maduro's arrest.
'Stop what you are doing and read this…' Leavitt wrote on X, alongside five emojis of the American flag.
The 'absolutely chilling' testimony was attributed to an unnamed 'Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro.'
He claimed that his own weapons were rendered useless by the American military's new weapon.
'Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,' the account said.
It added: 'We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.'
The guard supposedly said that he had 'never seen anything like it.'
'We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was,' he added.
The soldier's remarks reposted by Leavitt described the capture mission as a 'massacre.'
Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured and then taken by helicopter to the USS Iwo Jima warship.
The former Venezuelan leader is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting trial on federal charges.
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