Liberals And Cocaine-Lovers Align To Hate On Trump For Saving American Lives

Mary Rooke | Daily Caller News Foundation | September 03, 2025

President Donald Trump is following through with a campaign promise to shut down the human and drug traffickers who terrorize our country, and for some reason, that makes the left angry.

There were over 80,000 overdose deaths in 2024, per CDC reports. For reference, that’s more people than who died in the September 11 terrorist attack. Trump vowed to take this aggression against Americans seriously. In July 2025, he designated the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, a terrorist organization for its role in these deaths and other heinous crimes against the U.S.

So it really should be no shock to anyone paying attention that Trump’s plan with the cartels is to use whatever force necessary to prevent their operations from costing American lives, including what happened Tuesday when the U.S. military completed a successful drone strike against a Tren de Aragua narcotics boat advancing on the U.S.

The video of the strike posted to several Trump administration official social media accounts shows the suspected “go-fast” boat (a speedboat used for smuggling) originating from Venezuela, operated by Tren de Aragua members, and carrying “illegal narcotics” (likely cocaine based on the gang’s known activities and regional trafficking patterns) successfully eliminated in open waters. It’s hard not to see this as a win for the U.S., unless you are desperate to attack Trump’s every move or a third-world foreign leader in charge of a country known for its cocaine.

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Quickly after the Trump administration celebrated the successful mission, Trump critics jumped at the chance to attack their favorite punching bag.

Former head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, called the drone strike an illegal summary execution.

“Trump admits he ordered a summary execution — the crime of murder. Drug traffickers are not combatants who can be shot on sight. They are criminal suspects who must be arrested and prosecuted,” Roth said.

Similarly, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council who often focuses on immigration policy and data from a left-wing perspective, claimed that it’s possible Trump didn’t hit a Tren de Aragua smuggling boat at all, but instead murdered innocent fishermen. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)

“Given how poor the admin’s intelligence has been about Tren de Aragua so far, there’s a possibility this is just a random fishing boat they drone striked,” Reichlin-Melnick said.

Adam Isacson, who works in defense, security, borders, and migration at Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), claimed the Trump administration committed a war crime before later admitting that the term was probably not correct in this situation.

“Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense, which this video does not show. Only non-lethal actions, like warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. ‘Being suspected of carrying drugs’ doesn’t carry a death sentence,” Isacson said.

“On our internal Signal chat, we’re figuring out the appropriate term for this act. ‘War crime’ (above) isn’t right — unless you accept the framing of a Navy ship at ‘war’ with ‘terrorists’ in the Caribbean,” Isacson added.

Even Colombian President Gustavo Petro said, in a post, that Trump’s drone strike was tantamount to “murder.”

“If this is true, it is a murder anywhere in the world,” Petro said. “We have been capturing civilians who transport drugs for decades without killing them. Those who transport drugs are not the big narcos, but very poor young people from the Caribbean and the Pacific.”

Why would the Colombian president care so much about the deaths of suspected narco terrorists? Maybe it’s because Colombia is the world’s leading producer of cocaine. Based on U.S. government estimates from the Consolidated Counterdrug Database (CCDB), the U.S. has consistently seen over 1,000 metric tons of cocaine destined for our shores every year, and DEA analysis shows that Colombian-origin cocaine accounts for approximately 93% of cocaine seized in the U.S.

Petro called for the legalization of cocaine in February 2025, alleging the narcotic is comparable to whiskey and that it’s illegal because it’s made in Latin America.

If Trump is willing to go after the Tren de Aragua gangs for killing Americans through drug smuggling, nothing is stopping him from going after what is likely Colombia’s top export to the U.S. (ROOKE: Pro-Palestinian Group Calls For Treason Against US In Creative But Definitely Illegal Way)

You won’t see any Angel Families decrying Trump’s drone strike on the suspected drug smugglers or asking for leniency for future narco terrorists attempting to reach U.S. shores. Americans are tired of the constant violence and chaos in our drug-filled communities. We want safety and security.