President Trump on Monday defended his administration’s decision to carry out airstrikes on the boats of alleged drug traffickers — and suggested he was open to doing whatever it takes to stop their trade, including launching attacks on Mexican soil.
“Every boat we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives,” he boasted of the strikes on suspected narco-terrorists, during a White House task force meeting on the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
“Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? OK with me. Whatever we have to do to stop drugs,” he added. “I looked at Mexico City over the weekend. There’s some big problems over there.”
“I’ve been speaking to Mexico. They know how I stand. We’re losing hundreds of thousands of people to drugs,” he went on. “So now we’ve stop the waterways, but we know every route. We know every route, we know the addresses of every drug lord. We know their address, we know their front door. We know everything about every one of them.
“They’re killing our people. That’s like a war,” he concluded. “Would I do it? I’d be proud to — I’d probably go into Congress … Much of it comes through Mexico. So let me just put it this way. I am not happy with Mexico.”
