Donald Trump addresses the United Nations in New York (Picture: Tass/Barcroft Images)

Donald Trump has been called ‘the new Hitler’ of international politics by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. 

It came after the US president said he would step-up if Venezuela imposes ‘an authoritarian regime’ as he urged world leaders to restore ‘democracy’ in the South American country.

Maduro blasted Trump’s speech at the United Nations as an ‘aggression from the new Adolf Hitler of international politics, Mr Donald Trump’.

Reacting angrily from Caracas, he said the ‘tycoon’ thinks ‘he is the owner of the world’ as he warned: ‘Nobody threatens Venezuela and nobody owns Venezuela.’

He also accused Trump of threatening to assassinate him, despite Trump making no such threats.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro didn’t like Trump’s UN speech (Picture: Reuters)

Trump threatened to build upon sweeping economic sanctions that the US already slapped on Venezuela last month.

But he did not repeat an earlier threat to consider military options to pressure Venezuela, a day after dining with the leaders of four Latin American countries who made clear they would not support such action.

‘The Venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing. Their democratic institutions are being destroyed,’ Trump said.

‘This situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch.

‘I ask every country represented here today to be prepared to do more to address this very real crisis.’

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (Picture: AP Photo/Richard Drew)
President Nicolas Maduro was not present at the UN for Trump’s speech (Picture: AFP/Federico Parra/Getty)

At the UN, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza also condemned Trump’s remarks but he ignored questions at a news conference about the criticism Venezuela faced from other world leaders.

Maduro’s government has become increasingly isolated in the region, although he retains the loyalty of several left-leaning Latin American governments and small Caribbean countries who import Venezuelan oil.

A dozen Latin American foreign ministers plan to meet at the UN on Wednesday to discuss possible new measures to address the Venezuelan crisis.

Those same countries met last month in Lima where they denounced Venezuela’s ‘democratic collapse’.

Venezuela’s government faced international criticism after a Supreme Court decision in March to gut the opposition-controlled congress, a ruling that was later reversed.

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled the political turmoil as well as widespread shortages of food and medicine and triple-digit inflation.

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