Trump declares ‘we’re just going to kill people’ as Hegseth blows up ‘drug boat’

Donald Trump declared “we’re just going to kill people” the day before Pete Hegseth announced six more “narco-terrorists” died in a strike on another “drug boat”. The Defense Secretary shared a video on Friday (24 October) of the strike in the Carribean Sea, against a group Mr Hegseth identified as the Tren de Aragua criminal organization. Forty people have now been killed in a series of strikes the Trump administration has carried out against alleged drug traffickers since September. On Thursday, when the president was asked by a reporter why he does not ask Congress for an official declaration of war against the cartels, he replied: “Well, I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re going to kill people bringing drugs into our country. “We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead,” he said.