President Donald Trump said he will deliver a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night but gave no details on what the topic will be.
“My fellow Americans: I will be giving an address to the nation tomorrow night,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then.”
The 9 p.m. speech will be the fourth such address since Trump returned to the White House for a second four-year term.
One of Trump’s previous Oval Office addresses marked the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk while another concerned the random murder of a woman on a train in Charlotte, N.C., in September. The first was a State of the Union-style address he gave in March.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters the speech would be an end-of-year wrapup detailing some of the president’s supposed achievements.
Trump has been battling poor approval ratings in polls as he approaches the end of his first year back in the presidency.
Voters say they are dissatisfied with his handling of the economy and rising prices as the political world starts to focus on next year’s crucial midterm congressional elections in which Democrats hope to flip the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate.
Trump has focused much of his attention on foreign policy, like his push to forge a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine and increase pressure on oil-rich Venezuela.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles admitted in a bombshell interview published Tuesday that Trump aims to engineer regime change in Venezuela even though the administration claims its controversial campaign of strikes against alleged drug boats in the southern Caribbean is a defensive operation aimed at stopping imports of deadly fentanyl.
