Why would anyone care if drug runners are blown out of the water? On Monday, November 11. 2025 PJ Media ran this headline, “The AP’s Attempt at Narco-Propaganda Goes Terribly Wrong.”
There has been a lot of talk about whether the narco-boats the Donald Trump administration is striking in the Caribbean Sea are, in fact, narco-boats. Most of that talk has come from Gustavo Petro, Nicolás Maduro, and their buddies on the left in the United States, like certain members of Congress and the MSM. The way they tell it, these are just humble fisherman sitting miles off shore in international waters, using these sophisticated vessels to catch a meal or earn a living.
On Friday, the Associated Press attempted to join this chorus that is aimed at making Trump look like a mean old bully by publishing an article entitled “Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced.”
In the article, the AP claims it figured out “the identities of four of the men – and pieced together details about at least five others – who were slain, providing the first detailed account of those who died in the strikes.”
It implies that these guys weren’t necessarily narco-criminals before admitting about six paragraphs down that they were all indeed narco-criminals: “In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela’s breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang.”
“Finally, after over 5 decades, a President is actually declaring a real ‘War on Drugs” and the Leftist have a problem with that?” asked Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan based centrally in Harrison, Arkansas. “In 1971 President Nixon said in a Press Conference that drugs were public enemy #1 in America. Soon after, it was coined as the ‘War on Drugs’. Since then, in the 1970’s through the 80’s cocaine emerged as a major drug concern for America. Then, in the late 90’s around 1999 thru 2010 the over prescribing of opioid pain medication hit the scene with record opioid deaths being reported, then came heroin which was cheaper to buy on the streets than the prescribed opioids, and today we are seeing massive amounts of synthetic drugs like fentanyl coming across our borders. My question is, what kind of person wouldn’t be happy about a President with enough guts to attack America’s drug problem where it starts? Who cares how many drug dealers are blown out of the water? I couldn’t care less about their deaths. What we should be talking about is how many lives have been saved because these drugs didn’t make it here. In any war there are casualties and in the war on drugs they should be expected as well.”
