Trump warns Maduro against playing 'tough' as US escalates pressure campaign on Venezuela

US President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as the US Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Republican administration's escalating pressure campaign on the government in Caracas. Trump was surrounded by his top national security aides, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as he suggested that he remains ready to further escalate his four-month pressure campa