India, Jan. 3 -- US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he watched live as US special forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a daring raid, saying it looked "like a television show".

This comes after US strikes in Venezuela's Caracas. An Army Delta Force team flew Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, out of the country in a raid, sending the region into turmoil.

"I mean, I watched it, literally, like I was watching a television show. And if you would have seen the speed, the violence," Trump said in a telephone interview with Fox News.

He also lauded the "professionalism" of the US armed forces. "I've never seen anything like this. I was able to watch it in real-time, and I watched every aspect of it. It was amazing...