(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said the U.S. military destroyed a fourth suspected drug boat on Friday carrying enough drugs to kill tens of thousands of Americans.

"A boat loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 TO 50 THOUSAND PEOPLE was stopped, early this morning off the Coast of Venezuela, from entering American Territory," Trump said in a social media post.

The president's post didn't provide further details about the strike, the fourth such strike since September.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he took action on Trump's orders.

"I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility," Hegseth wrote on X. "Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in

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