🇪🇨🇻🇪⚡- Ecuador's National Assembly has approved a resolution to support the detention of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.

🇺🇸⚡- "Trump privately spoke with his former impeachment attorney Alan Dershowitz about potentially being president for a THIRD term.

Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇻🇪⚡- Two Venezuelan F-16s have gone airborne, operating over the coast of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Two U.S. Navy EA-18 Growler are also airborne off the coast of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "On Dec. 17, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. A total of four male narco-terrorists were killed, and no U.S. military forces were harmed," - SOUTHCOM.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's prime time address to begin in 10 minutes.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Around three hours ago, a squadron of F-22 Raptor fighter jets departed Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, being dragged by a KC-135 Stratotanker as they flew south.

Rerum Novarum can confirm that anywhere from 3-4 waves of F-22s departed Langley, flowing south.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has begun speaking.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess; and I begun fixing it." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Our border was open, and because of this, our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "This is what the Biden Administration allowed to happen to our country." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We have brought more positive change to Washington than any American President in history." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is gloating about his accomplishments; we won't transcribe all of this part.

🇺🇸⚡️- "In just a few months, we went from worst to best!" - President Trump on immigration.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Drugs brought in by ocean and sea are down by 90%." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "More than 1,450,000 military servicemembers will receive a special 'warrior dividend' before Christmas, in honor of our nation's founding in 1776. We are sending every soldier $1,776." - President Trump, the "grand announcement" he had to make.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Nothing of note on Venezuela.

You all really thought, didn't you?

(so did we)

🇺🇸⚡️- "Gasoline is now under $2.50 a gallon." - President Trump, lying.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We're putting America First, and we're making America great again." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, God bless you all!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's speech has ended.