Trump Orders Second Strike on ‘Narcoterrorists’ in Caribbean

President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that U.S. military forces launched a second deadly strike on a Venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean Sea a bold message to violent narcoterrorist cartels: “We are hunting you.”

In a direct and unapologetic post to social media, Trump shared an unclassified video clip showing the moment a suspected drug vessel erupted into flames and smoke, moments after being targeted by American forces operating under his orders.

“This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists,” Trump wrote.

According to the president, the boat was loaded with illegal narcotics bound for the United States, and the individuals on board were confirmed members of a violent cartel operation originating in Venezuela a nation whose dictator Nicolás Maduro has long been accused of running a state-sponsored narco-empire.

Trump added that three traffickers were killed in the strike, and no U.S. personnel were harmed.

“BE WARNED — IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU!”

This is the second high-profile strike under Trump’s new offensive posture toward international narcoterrorism. Earlier this month, a similar U.S. operation took out nearly a dozen traffickers linked to the notorious Tren de Aragua cartel, a violent Venezuelan network known for trafficking, extortion, and terrorism.

The president's tough-on-crime stance comes amid a massive U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, aimed at cutting off drug routes, surrounding the Maduro regime, and confronting the foreign terrorist organizations tied to America’s deadly fentanyl crisis and cocaine epidemic.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, a key figure in Trump’s anti-cartel initiative, confirmed:

• The DEA has seized over 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro’s narco-network.

• Nearly seven tons of those drugs were directly tied to Maduro himself.

• The U.S. has doubled its bounty on Maduro, offering $50 million for information leading to his arrest.

“Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like TDA, Sinaloa, and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,” Bondi said.

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s war and it’s working.

Trump’s aggressive posture represents a major shift in national security strategy, treating transnational drug cartels not as law enforcement issues, but as paramilitary threats to American sovereignty and public safety. And unlike the previous administration’s empty condemnations and finger-wagging, Trump is delivering kinetic justice without apology.

As fentanyl continues to kill over 70,000 Americans annually, and cartels increasingly operate like narco-armies, the American public is demanding action. President Trump is delivering it.

And for the traffickers still out there, the message couldn’t be clearer:
You’re not just criminals you’re targets.

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