Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, September 5th.

Happy Friday, folks. The weekend is here.

Donald Trump's showing he's not playing any games when it comes to Venezuela or the drug lords or anybody, for that matter.

President Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.

This is part of President Trump's war on the cartels, war on the drug lords,

and war on anyone who means to destroy America. Now it all comes as tensions are mounting with Venezuela

over Washington's military buildup in the Caribbean. The planes will join the U.S. warships already

deployed to the Southern Caribbean as President Trump steps up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro,

whom the United States accuses of leading the drug cartel.

The standoff has grown in the recent days as the Pentagon says two Venezuelan military planes

flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters on Thursday night, which they say is highly provocative.

U.S. forces on Tuesday, of course, blew up that drug boat in the Caribbean that President

Trump said belonged to Trenday Agua, the Venezuelan criminal organization.

He tied to Maduro.

It killed 11 people on board.

I don't even know if you can consider them human beings being what they were meant to do and the drugs they were bringing to America.

Maduro, who's obviously a leftist firebrand, who last election in 2024 was seen by Washington as illegitimate.

I imagine that.

America's not the only place, apparently, that has illegitimate elections.

He's denouncing this move as the U.S.

buildup as, quote, the greatest threat to our continent that it's seen in the last

hundred years, declaring his country prepared for armed struggle. This is a quote,

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