The United States is not talking about regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Friday, as the U.S. ordered an additional 10 stealth fighter jets to a growing military buildup in the Caribbean.

"We're not talking about that, but we are talking about the fact that you had an election which was a very strange election, to put it mildly," Trump said, referring to the contested 2024 election the Venezuelan government claims President Nicolas Maduro won.

Trump had been asked by reporters about a claim made by Maduro this week that the United States was "regime change through military threat." Maduro repeated the phrasing later on Friday.