Posted on 12/17/2025 3:14:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson made a startling claim that President Donald Trump may use his upcoming televised address to announce war with Venezuela.
Carlson was speaking on the online show Judging Freedom. The right-winger said he was told by a member of Congress that lawmakers had been briefed ahead of Trump’s planned 9 pm address.
“Members of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war [with Venezuela] is coming, and it will be announced in [Trump’s] address to the administration tonight,” Carlson said, according to a transcript shared on social media.
However, he was also not sure whether the MAGA chief would actually make such an announcement of waging a full-scale war.
Trump’s address comes amid sour US-Venezuela relations, where his administration has stepped up military actions against the neighbor on a questionable scale.
Earlier this week, Trump ordered a full naval blockade on oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuelan waters. He described it as a response to Venezuela’s "theft" of US oil and other assets.
The blockade is part of a bigger US military stance in the region that has included a major naval deployment in the Caribbean, airstrikes on suspected drug‑trafficking vessels, and the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker off the nation’s coast.
US lawmakers from both parties are not sure about the scope of these operations. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen warned that the Pentagon’s actions could be seen as probing “unauthorised acts of war.” On the other hand, Republican Senator Rand Paul described recent moves as an “initiation of war.”
Venezuela’s government has condemned the US blockade. They called it a violation of international law and a threat to regional stability.
Despite Carlson’s claims, there is no official confirmation that Trump plans to declare war. Under the US Constitution, a formal declaration of war requires congressional...
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Most likely this is what Trump is going to cover
Tucker is full of it.
If he really did consult with Congress the last few days about this, it would have leaked by now.
Amazing that anybody with half a brain still listens to him.
I think it has to do with the mountain of evidence confirming the 2020 election steal.
“They called it a violation of international law and a threat to regional stability.”
We are the law and we are regional stability.
Realpolitik says so.
Tucker Carlson is a Qatari bought-and-paid-for-flack now letting his antisemite freak flag fly but I’ve seen other reports.
I don’t know or care nor will read anything that jackass has to say every again.
But if tonight is about Venezuela? Good lord.
At least the AUMF was a debate. Everybody now hates the outcome and pretends that polls, votes, elections didn’t happen but it WAS a debate. I *did* support it. 9/11 was a generational tragedy and shock. Jihadists murdered 2300 Americans. I was wrong.
Unlike lots of people? I don’t blame Dick Cheney or Colin Powell or W or the neocons or whatever for “tricking” me - they presented case. I heard the opposing case. Jurisdiction of just my own 2 cents, but I was wrong.
We haven’t even been presented a case here.
That is a definite possibility. I hope that’s it.
If there’s one person that I know for sure has zero inside information it’s Tucker Carlson. He’s vaulted over the fence to screw’s loose land lately.
In order to keep Venezuela financially afloat, Maduro needs drugs to preclude collapse.
So, about how many TDA’s & other Venezuelan parolees do you think brandon allowed in & are still stationed here?
But an Oval Office address?
Seems overkill.
He exports 900K barrels/day. We have seized a few million over a couple of weeks.
He’s not desperate for money.
If it’s going to be military action, I suspect it might be an attack on Iran If they suspect it had connections to the Nuclear specialist getting killed in Massachusetts.
Good point.
Maybe he will announce a $1,000 “gift” to taxpayers. :)
They will. It will be 2018 again. The fake Republican grifters hate Trump.
They do nothing.
I think that the plasma physicist was killed by someone from our own deep state. He was doing cutting edge work. The kind of work that certain people don't want public.
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