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President Donald Trump said Saturday that a U.S. military strike destroyed a "very large drug-carrying submarine" in the Caribbean this week, killing two suspected narcoterrorists and capturing two others alive, while releasing video of the strike.
In a statement posted to Truth Social , Trump said the vessel was carrying mostly " fentanyl and other narcotics " toward the U.S. on a "well known narcotrafficking transit route." He claimed the interdiction prevented as many as 25,000 American overdose deaths.
"It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE," Trump wrote. "U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl… There were four known narcoterrorists on board. Two o