Washington, Nov. 3 -- US President Donald Trump, downplaying Washington's tensions with Venezuela, doubted that the country is headed to any kind of war with Caracas, opining that President Nicolas Maduro's days are numbered.

Addressing the massive US Navy buildup in the Caribbean, when asked whether it was pointing to a possible war with the Latin-American state, Trump denied that Washington had any intention of going to war with Caracas, while also addressing the matter of illegal immigration.

Speaking to CBS News, he said, "I doubt it. I don't think so. But they've been treating us very badly, not only on drugs-- they've dumped hundreds of thousands of people into our country that we didn't want, people from prisons -- they emptied the...