STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday (December 11) the U.S. will soon begin strikes to interdict narcotics shipments making their way from Venezuela to the United States via land routes.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to begin strikes on narcotics being smuggled overland in recent weeks.

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VIDEO SHOWS: U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING AT OVAL OFFICE

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SHOWS: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 11, 2025) (UNRESTRICTED POOL – Access all)

1. U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SITTING AND LISTENING TO QUESTION FROM JOURNALIST ON VENEZUELA

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

“Well, it's about a lot of things, but one of the things it's about is the fact that they've allowed millions of people to come into our country from their prisons, from gangs, from drug dealers and from mental institutions, probably proportionately more than anybody else. They came in from many countries. We're getting them out. We had 11,888 murderers come into our country. Many of them are from Venezuela. We had thousands of Tren de Aragua, the gang, come in from, which they say is the most violent gang. I don't know, MS13 is pretty bad, but Tren de Aragua, they say, is the most violent gang that comes out from the prisons of Venezuela. Came out of the prisons of Venezuela.”

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4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

“So it has to do with a lot of things. They've treated us badly. And I guess now we're not treating them so good. If you look at the drug traffic, drug traffic by sea is down 92% and nobody can figure out who the 8% is, because I have no idea. Anybody getting involved in that right now is not doing well. And we'll sort that out on land, too. It's going to be starting on land pretty soon.”

5. TRUMP SPEAKING (NOT A SOUNDBITE)