Marco Rubio confuses journalist Germán Dam for a real dam in Venezuela

Marco Rubio has been an outspoken critic of the Venezuelan government.

And this weekend, he commented on widespread power outrages which are wreaking havoc across the country.

In a tweet, Rubio referred to a transformer explosion at the "German Dam in Bolivar State".

The only problem? There is no German Dam.

Rubio was right to say a transformer exploded in a city in Bolivar, but it didn’t happen at a dam.

Instead, the explosion was reported by the journalist Germán Dam – who is a person, not a real dam…

To Rubio’s credit, he still hasn’t deleted the original tweet – which is good news because it just gets funnier the more you look at it.

The online response has been a mixture of people enjoying the stupidity of the tweet and despairing at the fact that Rubio is a two-term US senator.

The German Dam wasn’t the only dam under threat…

It’s easy to forget that just a few years ago, some people thought Rubio had a good shot of becoming the president.

But then again, the president is Donald Trump – so the bar isn’t especially high.

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