Donald Trump reveals new deadly strike on 'narcotrafficking' vessel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Newsweek contacted the Department of War, formerly the Department of Defense, for comment on Saturday via email outside of regular office hours.
37% : Following his second presidential inauguration in January 2025 Trump designated a number of drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations.
37% : The first U.S. strike targeting alleged drug traffickers was announced by Trump on September 2.
30% : In his Truth Social post Trump said: "On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.
28% : " Trump announced the strike via his Truth Social website on Friday, saying it was ordered by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth against narcotrafficking by a "Designated Terrorist Organization" in the USSOUTHCOM (United States Southern Command) area of operations, which covers the Caribbean.
25% : Trump did not specify what evidence led U.S. authorities to conclude the targeted vessel was involved in drug smuggling.
24% : " Trump said the three "male narcoterrorists" who were on the boat were killed, who he said were "enroute to poision Americans" via a "known narcotrafficking passage."
20% : President Trump on Friday announced that three people, who he described as "male narcoterrorists," were killed by a U.S. air strike while "trafficking illicit narcotics" in international waters around the Caribbean.

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