Secretary of State Marco Rubio reacted to liberal tears over the U.S. hit on a Venezuelan drug vessel, and he didn't mince words that the only way to stop these narcoterrorists is to "blow them up."
Speaking to reporters about the recent U.S. military strike that destroyed a drug-running boat in the Caribbean Sea, Rubio said that President Donald Trump isn't going to play around with these terrorists and warned that strikes like these will happen again.
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🚨 JUST IN: RUBIO responds to leftists crying because Trump blew up narcoterrorists
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 3, 2025
"Strikes like this WILL happen again!" 🔥
"They were heading towards the U.S. to flood our country with POISON, and under President Trump, those days are OVER"
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"The United States has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allows us to interdict and stop drug boats," Rubio said. "And we did that. And it doesn't work."
"Interdiction does not work because these drug cartels know that they are going to lose two percent of their cargo," he added. "They bake it into their economics. What will stop them is when you blow them up. When you get rid of them."
"The President of the United States is going to wage war on narcoterrorist organizations," Rubio continued. "This one was operating in international waters, headed towards the United States to flood our country with poison. And under President Trump those days are over."
🔥HOLY SMOKES: Marco Rubio is holding NOTHING BACK about doubling and tripling down on eliminating narcoterrorist threats to the United States!
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 3, 2025
"These are not stockbrokers. These are not real estate agents… These are organized, corporate, structured organizations who specialize… pic.twitter.com/TpmMHdKPRq
Rubio wasn't done wiping the floor with the liberals' tears over the strike, and said that these aren't stockbrokers we are talking about here.
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— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 2, 2025
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The Secretary of State said that Trump has determined that narcoterrorists pose a threat to the national security of the United States, noting how they traffic in humans and drugs.
"These are not stockbrokers. These are not real estate agents… These are organized, corporate, structured organizations who specialize in the trafficking of deadly drugs into the United States of America," Rubio said. "They pose an immediate threat to the United States."
"If you're on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl… you're an immediate threat to the United States," he added. "This president is not a talker. He's a doer — and he's going to do it."
As my RedState colleague Streiff reported, the actions on the drug vessel confirm reports in August that Trump had authorized military action against drug cartels.
The report read:
President Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations, according to people familiar with the matter.
The decision to bring the American military into the fight is the most aggressive step so far in the administration's escalating campaign against the cartels. It signals Mr. Trump's continued willingness to use military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility to curb the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs.
The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels.
US military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after the groups, the people familiar with the conversations said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations.
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