Trump plans prime-time address Wednesday but gives no hints on topic

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Dec 16, 2025

By clicking submit, I authorize Arcamax and its affiliates to: (1) use, sell, and share my information for marketing purposes, including cross-context behavioral advertising, as described in our Privacy Policy , (2) add to information that I provide with other information like interests inferred from web page views, or data lawfully obtained from data brokers, such as past purchase or location data, or publicly available data, (3) contact me or enable others to contact me by email or other means with offers for different types of goods and services, and (4) retain my information while I am engaging with marketing messages that I receive and for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. I understand I can opt out at any time through an email that I receive, or by clicking here

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.