Trump Says Drugs Killed 300 Million Last Year

Monday, September 15, 2025

President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to justify the fatal U.S. strike on a Venezuelan boat by claiming that 300 million people, presumably Americans, died from drugs last year. He was off by almost 300 million.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 03:31 PM | 22 COMMENTS | permalink

The country's interior minister said those killed in a U.S. Caribbean strike were not drug traffickers, raising questions about the legality of the attack.

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-- Newsweek (@newsweek.com) Sep 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Comments

Eberly will be a long shortly, to blame the Democrats for ... something or another.

#1 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-09-15 01:58 PM

Jeff will run in and declare this to be factual.

62 million people died last year AROUND THE WORLD from drugs.

This asshat says almost 90% of Americans died last year.

Anyone ask Jake Tapper if he's clutching his pearls yet?

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-15 02:26 PM

Trump
Lies
All
The
Time

His idiot supporters are the dumbest people in America and believe his every word.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-15 02:29 PM

Wardog will be along shortly to tell us all what Eberly had for breakfast.......oh wait...already did.

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-15 02:30 PM

Rocky Mountain Oysters?

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-15 02:35 PM

What stat have the Dems offered up for how many people have been killed by drugs?

Show me that or else this is entirely believable...

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#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-15 04:24 PM

------- Idiot!

#7 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-09-15 04:34 PM

Trump appears to be confused... and projecting the future death tolls under Bobby Jr.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-15 05:06 PM

If Biden had said this - or any of the other batschitt crazy things Trump says - right wingers and MAGAts would be calling for him to be ousted.

Conservaties/MAGAts are a bunch of feckless hypocrites!

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-09-15 05:50 PM

Can you imagine the outcry from Ballwasher et.al. if Biden had said that?

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-15 06:29 PM

62 million people died last year. Not from drugs. 62 million PERIOD.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-15 06:30 PM

Facts are unnecessary when you're a Trumper.

#12 | Posted by cbob at 2025-09-15 07:31 PM

Why does the left consistently protect criminals and foreign entities instead of American neighbors? Their loyalty has never been to Americans obviously. Their loyalty is to the PARTY leaders and politics just like PRAVDA.

#13 | Posted by Robson at 2025-09-15 09:15 PM

- PRAVDA.

Is the Fox News of Russia; the Gov's Propaganda tool.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-15 09:24 PM

Why does the left consistently protect criminals and foreign entities instead of American neighbors?

Why do you continually say stupid s(*& and prove over and over again what a dumbf*&^ moron you are?

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-16 01:19 AM

Pam Bondi claims pedo 47 saved 258 million lives.

www.factcheck.org

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-16 01:39 AM

Wait... did #6 say that he found the 300 million number credible? Really? 0% critical thinking skills? Just swallow anything? Pretty sad.

#17 | Posted by Sezu at 2025-09-16 02:39 PM

If Biden had said this

Interesting that conservatives say to not criticize dead people, but they criticized Joe Biden all the time even after he passed away and was replaced by a hologram in 2011.

#18 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-09-16 02:53 PM

Drugs are great! They had no effect on me, other than making me big bank when I sold them in college...
--Heroin Bob

#19 | Posted by catdog at 2025-09-16 05:28 PM

Re #6:

Generally, drug overdose deaths in the USA have been less than 100K per year during the last two decades and have been decreasing since 2022.

www.cdc.gov

nida.nih.gov

#20 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-09-16 06:47 PM

geez...nobody really cares about that absurd number he said.

#21 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-16 06:48 PM

What percentage of the right believe Trumps words? What are the oranges of that behavior?

Protect criminals and foreign entities such as releasing Israeli sex predators fronting for CIA/Mossad?

Loyalty on command such as gold bars or a jumbo jet? Or releasing lists of academic posters critical of mass firings, imposed racism or a genocide?

Imo, Netanyahu presenting Trump with a golden pager isn't the act of loyalty you imagine it to be.

#22 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-09-16 07:02 PM

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