President Trump praises Venezuelan drug ship for military strike

president Donald Trump On Tuesday, allegedly suspected of alleged drugs aboard a Venezuelan ship suspected of carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean.

Trump shared a video on social media depicting a U.S. military strike in the area of ​​responsibility of the U.S. Southern Command, just days after he deployed three U.S. Navy missile destroyers to strengthen the administration’s work on consultants in the region.

“You have a lot of drugs,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “We have videotapes, they talk. A lot of drugs that kill a lot of people. And, everyone understands that fact completely. You see, you see the drug bags on the ship, they get hit.

“Obviously, they won’t do it again. I don’t think a lot of other people will do it again. When they watch the tape, they will say, don’t do it. We have to protect our country, we’re going to go. Venezuela is a very bad actor.”

Maduro claims we seek “governmental change through military threats” in the Caribbean

Trump said on Monday that the U.S. military had determined the person on board was a member of Tren de Aragua and said on Tuesday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is in charge of the organization.

However, the National Intelligence Commission conducted an assessment in April, deeming that there was no coordination between Tren de Aragua and the Venezuelan government.

According to Rep. Carlos Gimenez of R-Fla, the ship belongs to the Sun Cartel, a Venezuelan drug trafficking organization led by Venezuela’s military leaders.

The Trump administration takes a positive attitude to pour drugs into the United States and designate drug cartel groups like Tren de Aragua Sinaloa Cartel In February, the others were foreign terrorist organizations.

Maduro responded to the Trump administration’s decision to send destroyers to the US Southern Command, saying Venezuela is ready to respond to any attacks and said the move posed a “luxury, unreasonable, immoral, immoral and absolute criminal and bloody threat.”

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was held at a press conference on July 31, 2024 at the Miraphres Palace in Caracas, Venezuela. (Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Faced with this greatest military pressure, we declared our preparations to defend against Venezuela,” Maduro said in a press conference on Monday.

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“We already have assets, assets in the water, assets on the ship, because it’s a fatal and serious task for us and it won’t stop just with this strike,” Heggs told Fox News Wednesday.

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“Anyone who else traffics in those waters we know will face the same fate,” Heggs said.

Fox News Alexandra Koch contributed to the report.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke at a press conference held at the Pentagon in Washington on June 26, 2025. (Kevin Wolff/AP)