Trump’s primetime address comes amid rising tensions with Venezuela and as Americans are growing more frustrated with his handling of the economy

President Donald Trump said he was ordering a “TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS” going into and leaving Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Caracas amid a US military buildup in the region and the threat of land strikes.

President Trump has not clearly called for regime change in Venezuela as Chief of Staff Susie Wiles says he's in an anti-war mood this term.

Trump signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction on December 15, but Pentagon officials told Congress that destroyed Caribbean vessels contained cocaine, not fentanyl,