U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media within the Oval Workplace on the White Home on September 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Following days of hypothesis about his well being from customers on social media, President Trump made his first public look in every week to announce the transfer of House Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. Alex Wong/Getty Photos/AFP (Picture by ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Photos by way of AFP)
WASHINGTON, United States — President Donald Trump stated Tuesday that US forces had attacked a ship carrying medication from Venezuela and “took it out.”
The US forces “shot out a ship…, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of medication in that boat,” Trump stated within the White Home. “So we took it out.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced on X that the “US navy carried out a deadly strike… in opposition to a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a chosen narco-terrorist group.”
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The announcement adopted days of mounting pressure between Washington and Caracas.
Venezuela’s leftist President Nicolas Maduro has declared a state of “most readiness” to defend in opposition to what he says are US navy threats.
The Trump administration, which accuses Maduro of heading a drug cartel, has introduced a deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean in what it labeled an anti-drug trafficking operation. It has made no invasion risk.
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