Trump gave the Pentagon the order that drug smugglers' boats were no longer to have their engines shot out and their crews rescued and arrested, but were to be vaporized.
President Trump shared dramatic footage of the US military obliterating a boat carrying drugs and Tren de Aragua gangbangers off the coast of Venezuela on Tuesday.
The video showed the small boat being blown out of international waters and exploding into flames after it was struck by a single missile, killing all aboard.
Trump said the boat was occupied by 11 "Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists" and was en route to the US when it was blown to smithereens.
"TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!"
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Trump in late August deployed three guided-missile destroyers and about 4,000 Marines to the Venezuelan coast -- prompting Maduro, the country's authoritarian left-wing leader, to mobilize millions of militia members and claim an invasion was imminent.
The Trump administration has branded the Cuba-aligned strongman, in power since 2013, as a drug cartel leader and fugitive from justice.
The US government in early August offered a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest.
Trump just promised "there's more where that came from."
Marco Rubio says that this kind of operation -- designed to simply kill, not capture -- will be "the norm" going forward, because capturing drug terrorists and "narcoterrorists" just hasn't worked.
Tom Homan similarly says that this will be America's new posture against the nacrotrafficking cartels. He says both that Trump intends to "put them out of business" and "wipe them off of the face of the earth," and promises attacks "worldwide."
Meanwhile, the DOJ has captured tons of precursor chemicals for making methamphetamine.
And the Chinese communist government is implicated.
The left is now hoping that the cartels kill Trump for them.