It’s been one year since Donald Trump strolled back into the Oval Office to begin his second stint as president after four long, dreary years of Joe Biden. He touted his many successes in a two-hour-long press conference Tuesday, bringing out a massive binder with receipts.
Often, numbers tell the story, and according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there’s a big result to report regarding U.S. drug overdoses: they’re down by 20 percent.
True, the decline began in the waning days of the Biden administration, when a flailing Ole Joe pretended to make an effort at the border after years of letting anyone with a pulse come in, but the trend accelerated once Trump took the oath of office.
What could be causing such a precipitous drop? Clearly, Trump’s summarily closing the southern border and allowing almost no illegal immigrants to slip through is a big part of it:
"The fall begins at the end of the Biden administration, but the question is, was it in anticipation of a tough-on-crime president coming in?" said Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct criminal justice professor at Penn State Lehigh Valley...
While the CDC did not provide a reason for the decline, it coincides with stronger border enforcement.
"Securing the borders has a lot to do with the drop," Giacalone told Fox News Digital. "Less chance for drug dealers and their mules to bring drugs into the country."
Washington state emergency room doctor Raul Garcia agrees with that assessment:
EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR: Raul Garcia just said. “I will tell you something I haven’t said publicly that deserves to be said.
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) January 19, 2026
We were seeing 10–12 fentanyl overdoses per day…
and now we see 1 or 2.”
He didn’t hesitate to explain why.
“Closing the borders and doing the things… pic.twitter.com/mvon0GdZvV
Closing the borders and doing the things that Donald Trump is doing has really made America better and safer.
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A number of states saw overdose declines to the tune of a stunning 30 percent: Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, New York, Vermont, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia. It’s Arizona, though, that was the outlier — they saw a rise of 17.75 percent between August 2024 and 2025. Not sure what’s going on in the Grand Canyon State, but they clearly need to get their act together. Don’t hold your breath, since the odious Democrat Katie Hobbs somehow won the governorship there.
But Arizona is the anomaly:
It’s amazing when you put it in actual context - the lamestream media won’t cover this pic.twitter.com/M1kUdkUCSp
— Three Year Letterman (@3YearLetterman) January 18, 2026
The first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency is in the books, and although it hasn’t always been a smooth ride —think, activist judges jumping off the third rope at every conceivable opportunity — it’s nevertheless been exponentially better for our country than the Biden administration. Each and every day, I remind myself that we could have had Kooky Kamala running the show alongside her sidekick, Twinkle Toes Tim.
These numbers are another sign of success — but they also represent real American lives. Real people who aren’t six feet under because Donald Trump took action. This is what we voted for.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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