Posted on 09/02/2025 9:39:11 PM PDT by Morgana
President Donald Trump released a video Tuesday that showed the U.S.'s lethal strike on a vessel involved in the drug trade that was coming out of Venezuela.
In the same Truth Social post, the president revealed that 11 Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists were killed in the attack.
He initially announced the strike from the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon.
'You'll see that we just, over the last few minutes literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat,' Trump told reporters.
The president said he had just been briefed on the matter by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Daniel 'Razin' Caine.
'We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time, and we just - these came out of Venezuela. And coming out very heavily from Venezuela, a lot of things are coming out of Venezuela, so we took it out,' Trump added.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio chimed in directly afterwards.
'As @potus just announced moments ago, today the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization,' Rubio said.
Later, Trump jumped on Truth Social to share more details, including that no American military personnel were harmed.
'Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!' the president said, ending the post with his trademark: 'Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!!!!!!'
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Adios Banditos.
I can’t count how many times, after working to elect a republican, that republican has betrayed his campaign promises.
If you voted for Donald Trump, you get what you voted for.
If there are eleven guys on that boat, where would there be room for drugs?
You would be shocked in how they pack and store it on those things.
Crispy Critters!!
How long before the media claims the occupants of the boat were part of a wedding party?
I cheered seeing the video of the strike. But it doesn’t change the fact that the driver for the trade is the vast market and light penalties here. It would take Singapore or Saudi methods to fix this.
Van Hollen is going to head for Venezuela so he can have margaritas with Maduro.
from Maryland.
A cubic meter (610 kilos) of uncut coke weighs about 1350 pounds.
Reduced supply will raise prices The media will claimTrump is creating inflation in the cocaine market.
Tren De Aragua, wasn’t that the guests Joe invited into the country who end up threatening people in Colorado?
This is what I voted for. Not tired of winning.
Sounds like a warning shot to Sheinbaum and Mexico.
Or a federal judge orders Trump to send them a new boat.
What sort of missile would not blow that boat to smithereens? There was a flash and then a fire in the middle of the boat, but it didn’t blow up or sink. Even the high speed mass of a missile would have gone right through that hull. Do we have anti-personnel missiles that do not do much damage to property?
Seems very odd to me.
She blowed up real good.
May it continue.
Well said.
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