The U.S. military on Tuesday struck a drug-carrying boat hailing from Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, as tensions spike between the Trump administration and the Venezuelan government.
President Trump announced the strike in an unrelated Tuesday afternoon Oval Office event, saying the military had “shot out” the boat “moments ago.” He said his team had been briefed on the strike by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Minutes later, Rubio posted on X that the military carried out a “lethal strike” in the southern Caribbean Sea. He said the “drug vessel” had departed Venezuela and “was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.”
BREAKING: President Trump just announced the U.S. military “SH0T OUT” a drug carrying boat from Venezuela on its way to America
THIS is what the U.S. military SHOULD be used for! Defending the homeland.
NOT regime change in foreign nations! pic.twitter.com/FJc0raxFjd
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 2, 2025
Message to drug smugglers. FAFO!
One of my friend said the media will say it was men on a fishing trip carrying Bibles…
that way the media will be able to demonize Trump, and gullible brainded liberals will believe it and they will hate Trump a little more.
By tomorrow some rogue judge will say it was illegal to shoot that boat, and he will impose a freeze on all operations for 30 days.
Sounds far fetched but Trump haters are stranger than fiction.
the judge will say the men on boat did not get due process
Leftist wingnuts will be crying saying Trump got the fish high.