President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed he spoke with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro but declined to say what the two discussed.

“I don’t want to comment on it. The answer is yes,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked about the call. The New York Times first reported that Trump spoke with Maduro earlier this month and that the two discussed the possibility of a meeting in the United States.

“I wouldn’t say it went well or badly; it was a phone call,” Trump said. The disclosure comes as Trump continues to balance confrontational rhetoric toward Venezuela with periodic gestures toward diplomacy.

Airspace warning unsettles Caracas

On Saturday, Trump said the airspace above and around Venezuela should be considered “closed in its entirety,” but offered no clarification. The remark caused anxiety in Caracas as his administration intensified pressure on Maduro’s government.

Asked whether those comments signaled imminent strikes, Trump replied, “Don’t read anything into it.”

The administration has been weighing new Venezuela-related options, arguing that Maduro oversees drug trafficking operations that have killed Americans. Maduro has denied any involvement in the drug trade.

Reuters has reported that U.S. options include an attempt to remove Maduro from power. The U.S. military is positioned for a new phase of operations following a major buildup in the Caribbean and nearly three months of strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs off Venezuela’s coast.

Rights groups sound alarm

Human rights organizations have condemned the strikes as unlawful extrajudicial killings, and some U.S. allies have raised concerns that Washington may be breaching international law.

Trump said he would look into whether U.S. forces carried out a second strike in September that killed survivors of an initial attack. He said he would not have supported such a follow-up strike.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the strikes are legal and intentionally “lethal.”

Trump also told U.S. service members last week that land operations to stop suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers would begin “very soon.”

Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials have not commented publicly on the call. Asked about it on Sunday, National Assembly chief Jorge Rodríguez said it was not the subject of his news conference, which focused on a legislative probe into U.S. naval strikes in the Caribbean.