President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

SEETHING dictator Nicolas Maduro has vowed to “kick in the teeth” of America after it seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s shores.

"We have just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually," Trump told reporters at the White House.