🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump's announcement to begin in 5 minutes.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- The two B-1 Bombers are heading back to mainland USA after checking in while aerial refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Any CIA operation in Venezuela would fail," - Venezuela's Ministry of Defense.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Scenes from the White House, ahead of President Trump's anticipated announcement.

From left to right, seated are Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump has entered.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump's announcement has begun.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "We're here today to discuss a sweeping, unprecedented, and historically successful operation that my administration has carried out in recent weeks to prosecute and remove foreign drug cartels from foreign soil." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "The cartels are the ISIS of the western hemisphere." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Biden surrendered our country to the cartels. But don't worry; we're taking it back." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "The cartels have waged war on us but now we’re waging war on them," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "This is already the most successful anti-cartel operation in American history, and it's just getting started," - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡- "I love the beautiful black Chicago women in MAGA hats," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- President Trump denies sending B-1 Bombers to the Venezuelan coast to ramp up pressure.

Note, two B-1 Bombers did operate off the coast of Venezuela just over an hour ago.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "We're not happy with Venezuela," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇻🇪⚡- BREAKING: "China is smuggling fentanyl through Venezuela into the US," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇻🇪⚡- "China makes $100 million smuggling fentanyl into the US. I'll be speaking to Xi about it," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Attacks on the land are going to be next," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Congress won't have a problem with attacks on land," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Don't worry about the West Bank, Israel is not going to do anything with it," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "We will go to Congress [on the issue of striking Venezuelan land]," - President Trump.