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President Donald Trump Sunday responded to the possibility of a U.S. strike on the mainland of Venezuela and other drug-taking ships as tensions intensified between the two countries.
Trump answered several questions about Venezuela during a conversation with reporters in Morristown, New Jersey on Sunday, including the possibility of a strike in the country and whether he was worried about whether President Nicholas Maduro would escalate.
“We’re going to see what happens,” Trump said Sunday in response to questions about the possibility of the U.S. for Latin American countries. “Look, Venezuela is Send us their gang members, drug dealers and drugs. This is unacceptable. ”
U.S. President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One on September 14, 2025 at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, and spent the entire weekend at his Bedminster residence on September 14, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
The President also said Boat The location where he saw his administration in the coastal areas of Venezuela has recently strengthened the U.S. Navy presence has been greatly reduced.
“We’ll see what happens.” Trump told reporters for the second time when asked if he intends to launch a strike in Venezuela. Drug-addicted ship. “There are certainly not many boats there. …. There is very little traffic on the boat.”
Trump touts us on strike as Maduro slams Venezuela’s military “threat”
When asked Sunday if he was concerned that Maduro might escalate, who marked some of Trump’s actions as illegal, Trump pointed to millions of drug deaths in the United States last year.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores marched during Independence Day celebrations in Caracas on July 5, 2025. (Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump fired backwards: “The drugs on the ship are illegal, and the drugs sent to our country, and the fact that 300 million people died from drugs last year, that’s illegal.”
Trump announces U.S. military conducts a “fatal strike” on Venezuelan drug ship in the Caribbean
Trump’s remarks come after tensions following a Venezuelan drug ship blown up in the southern Caribbean earlier this month, killing nearly twelve alleged Tren de Aragya (TDA) Nalco terrorists. According to the Associated Press, Venezuelan Foreign Minister accused U.S. Navy personnel of boarding a tuna boat in Venezuelan waters.
President Donald Trump recently shared a dramatic footage of a U.S. military strike that blows up a Venezuelan drug ship in the southern Caribbean, killing nearly a dozen alleged Trön de Alagua (TDA) Nalco-terrorists. (@realdonaldtrump via Truth Social)
“A lot of drugs come out of Venezuela. A lot of Tren de Aragua,” Trump told reporters. “They tried to leave, but we were successfully stopping them at the border of Venezuela.”
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In February, the Trump administration also designated drug cartel groups such as Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa Cartel and others as foreign terrorist groups.
