Donald Trump will give an “ADDRESS TO THE NATION” from the White House this evening, according to an enthusiastic social media post from the president.
Trump did not elaborate on the topic of the address, which will air at 9 pm EST, but has claimed on Truth Social that the “BEST IS YET TO COME.”
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters that the prime-time broadcast will give an insight into the president’s plans for next year. It will also give him a chance to speak about his successes.
“The best is truly yet to come, as he often says, and so he’ll be addressing the country about all of his historic accomplishments over the past year and maybe teasing some policy that will be coming in the new year, as well as we head into this Christmas season,” she told reporters, according to NBC News.
The news comes after Trump called for a complete blockade of Venezuelan oil, in a massive escalation of tensions. Meanwhile, the military has continued its unprecedented build-up in the Caribbean, heightening fears of a U.S. strike on Venezuelan soil.
Trump steps up feud with UK media organization, the BBC
In one episode of the news program, the BBC stitched together two parts of a speech delivered by Trump, which appeared to show him calling on supporters to riot on January 6, 2021.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol … and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell,” Trump says in the show, when both halves of that statement were actually separate.
The president has been forced to sue the BBC in Florida, since the statute of limitations has already run out in Britain.
It is much harder to prove defamation in the U.S. than it is in the U.K., as claimants must prove the defamatory comments were said with malice.
Also, Trump will have to prove that the broadcast defamed him in the U.S. However, it is unlikely that the Panorama documentary aired in the United States making that claim difficult to prove.
Report reveals cracks in Trump’s MAGA base
The survey found that support for the GOP leader has continued to leak away since April, with his approval figures continuing to worsen throughout his presidency.
The poll, conducted by the NBC News Decision Desk, found that both mainstream Republicans and those who identify as MAGA reported dissatisfaction with Trump.
Read the full report here…
Vanity Fair journalist hits out at criticisms of article:
Chris Whipple, the Vanity Fair writer who conducted a fiery interview with Susie Wiles, has hit back at the White House’s accusation that he wrote a “hit piece” on the Trump administration.
In the piece, he wrote that Wiles claimed that Trump had an “alcoholic’s personality.”
He also reported that Wiles believes JD Vance is a conspiracy theorist and that Elon Musk was an “avowed” ketamine user.
Although Wiles has since claimed that the context of her claims had been “disregarded,” Whipple says that “Everything is on tape.”
Read the full report here…
Watch: Karoline Leavitt slams bombshell Vanity Fair article
Karoline Leavitt has claimed that the Vanity Fair article detailing an interview with Susie Wiles was “disingenuous reporting.”
She also suggested that the reporter behind the article, Chris Whipple, was trying to push a narrative of “chaos and confusion” at the White House.
Pete Hegseth won’t release unedited footage of his double-tap strike on alleged drug boat
“In keeping with longstanding policy, of course we’re not going to release a top-secret, full, unedited video of that to the general public,” Hegseth said.
He has been accused of issuing an order to “kill everybody” on board the vessel on September 2, prompting the military to strike the vessel.
When it was revealed that there were survivors clinging to the wreckage, a second strike was launched.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate Minority Leader, has said that every senator has a right to see the footage of the attack.
“If they can’t be transparent on this, how can they be transparent on all the other issues swirling about the Caribbean?” he said.
Gavin Newsom trolls Trump with website tracking ‘criminal cronies’
California Governor Gavin Newsom has found a new way to troll the Trump administration by launching a website that tracks President Donald Trump’s “criminal cronies.”
Newsom’s team launched the site Tuesday, along with crime statistics that show falling rates of violent crime across major cities in California.
“With crime dropping — again — California is proving what real public safety leadership looks like,” Newsom said. “Meanwhile in D.C., Trump is a felon who surrounds himself with scammers and drug traffickers.”
Rhian Lubin has the full report…
Gavin Newsom unveils new method to troll Trump
Watch: MTG blasts Trump for his comments on Rob Reiner’s death
Marjorie Taylor Greene has slammed Donald Trump in their latest verbal spat since their political break-up.
Greene has branded his comments about the death of Rob Reiner as “classless” and “below the office of the President of the United States.”
US strikes more alleged drug boats from Venezuela
“On 15 December at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters,” U.S Southern Command confirmed on X.
That has raised the number of people killed by the U.S. in bombing raids on the boats to 95. The attacks began in September and have become increasingly controversial as critics question their legality.
Trump scrambles to defend his Chief of Staff following Vanity Fair article
She also claimed that Musk was using ketamine and that JD Vance was a conspiracy theorist.
However, Trump told the New York Post that Wiles is “fantastic,” despite the scandal.
The Vanity Fair interview was unexpected, given Wiles’ reputation for being extremely private.
She is often referred to as the “Ice Maiden” for her role in ruthlessly driving Donald Trump’s campaign.
Trump orders ‘complete’ blockade of Venezuelan oil
Last week, U.S. troops seized a tanker with the president claiming on Truth Social that Venezuelan President Maduro is using oil to fund his alleged “drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder and kidnapping.”
“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump wrote. “It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”
It is unknown what land or oil has been stolen by Venezuela.
Source: independent.co.uk