President Trump said on Sunday, 30 August, that Venezuelan crude will go into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Truth Social post is the primary. He put it this way: "One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves which, because of Sleepy Joe Biden, has been virtually emptied." He called the topping-out "a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States" and said it would begin "very shortly."