VENEZUELA’S Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza accused Donald Trump on Monday of acting like “the world’s emperor,” after the US president added the country to his travel-ban list.

Speaking at the United Nations, Mr Arreaza railed: “As if he were the world’s emperor, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, used this podium built for peace to announce wars, total destruction of member states” and “coercive measures, threatening and judging as if he had absolute, dictatorial powers over the sovereign member states of our organisation.”

On Monday, Mr Trump imposed an indefinite US travel ban on citizens of Venezuela, North Korea and Chad over alleged national security concerns.