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President Donald Trump said “no” on Friday when asked if he was considering strikes on Venezuela.
Watch Trump’s remarks in the video player above.
The president, who spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One as he headed to Florida for the weekend, gave a brief answer and did not provide details when asked if he was considering launching strikes on the ground in Venezuela.
The Trump administration carried out a series of strikes on boats in the Pacific Ocean that it claimed were carrying drugs. The strikes killed 61 people, and the United States built up an unusually large force of warships in the region.
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Trump also refused to clarify whether the United States would test its nuclear weapons.
The president was asked if his social media post this week about nuclear testing meant the United States would resume testing its nuclear weapons in underground detonation tests, which it has not done since 1992, and he replied: “You’ll find out very soon,” without elaborating.
“We’ll do some testing,” he said, and “other countries will do it. If they’re going to do it, we’ll do it,” but then declined to provide further details.
His comments on nuclear testing sparked confusion inside and outside government when the president appeared to suggest on social media that the United States would resume nuclear warhead testing for the first time in three decades on an “equal basis” with Russia and China, whose last known tests were in the 1990s.
Trump said he spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during his Asian tours this week, but said trade negotiations had not resumed.
Trump previously said he wanted to impose another 10% tariff increase on imports of Canadian goods because of an anti-tariff TV ad aired by the province of Ontario. The television ad used the words of former President Ronald Reagan to criticize US tariffs.
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