The president's last national address was aired by the White House on Nov. 26, after two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot in Washington, D.C., not far from the White House. Mr. Trump was in Florida at the time.

President Donald Trump’s blockade of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela brings into focus his current strategy toward Nicolas Maduro: Isolate the strongman through incremental pressure tactics rather than a major operation inside the country that Trump has, at times, asserted was about to begin.

The president pointed to the cost of gas as evidence that prices are falling, but the overall inflation rate has hovered close to 3%. While below the highs of the Biden years, the data is actually a slight uptick from 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

President Donald Trump discussed a draft copy of a book by lawyer Alan Dershowitz that examines whether Trump could constitutionally serve a third term as president, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The address comes as approval of Trump's handling of the economy has hit a new low, according to the latest NPR PBS News Marist Poll. Fully 45% of Americans said prices are their top economic concern right now, far ahead of the next-highest category – housing prices – at 18%.

A year ago, President Donald Trump spoke as if the American people had just delivered him a landslide for the ages.

The center “has played a key role in developing the science of climate modeling and the measurement of climate observations going back more than a half-century,” added Mann. The Trump administration’s move is “symbolic of the actual destruction of knowledge,” he said.

New Fox News poll shows Trump's job approval at 44% as 72% rate the economy negatively and 90% express serious concern about inflation.

President Trump is set to make a critical primetime address to the nation. He’s expected to make the case for his pressure campaign on Venezuela’s authoritarian regime, and tout accomplishments on the border and in the Mideast.

The White House unveiled plaques near the Oval Office that describe U.S. presidents with varying levels of accuracy, depending on President Trump’s opinion of them.