Donald Trump warned about the chilling new “water drugs” he said are coming into the U.S. via waterways, especially the Atlantic Ocean from Venezuela.
“We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water,” he said during an Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday.
He added that the drugs are “not coming,” stating that “there are no boats anymore,” before making an odd comment about the fishing industry, claiming that it’s dead.
“Frankly, there are no fishing boats,” he said. “There are no boats out there, period, if you want to know the truth,” he added. “Does anybody go fishing anymore?”
Over the past several weeks, Trump has launched a war on the drug cartels in Venezuela, who he claims are sending drugs to the U.S. via boats. The U.S. military, at his direction, has taken numerous boats he claims were filled with drugs headed toward American streets.
The president said he believes those strikes have saved “at least 100,000 lives” in both America and Canada.
“The fact is, we knocked out — probably saved — at least 100,000 lives, American lives, Canadian lives, by taking out all those boats coming in,” he said.
Trump targeting boats accused of carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela
The Trump administration has been targeting vessels the president claims are carrying drugs from Venezuelan cartels, with the latest strike taking place on Friday, when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the elimination of a small boat.
Trump declared an “armed conflict” with cartels and has used that declaration and his aforementioned quotes about saving American lives to wipe out the vessels.
In a social media post, Hegseth asserted that the latest vessel was “trafficking narcotics” and that those aboard were “narco-terrorists.” The strike, he said, killed four men — but he provided no further details on who they were or what group they belonged to.
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The strike followed the designation of several Latin American cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Trump said in his own social media post that the boat was “loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 TO 50 THOUSAND PEOPLE” and implied that it was “entering American territory” while it remained off the coast of Venezuela.