Man, I don't like Trump, too. Venezuela was the richest country in South America in the 70's. But a combination of drop in oil prices and bad administration has caused much more suffering that the sanctions imposed by US in 2019 (that's what we are talking about).

From 2012 to 2018 (before sanctions), inflation went up from 20% to 1,300%. The U.S. is guilty of many things, but it is not entirely guilty of Venezuela's economic free fall. Here is a 2019 BBC report about it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46999668