President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 22, 2025. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
President Donald Trump on Dec. 29 said that the United States had knocked out a loading facility linked to Venezuelan drug boats sometime before Dec. 26 as part of Washington’s ongoing campaign against vessels carrying narcotics to the United States.
On Monday, Trump told reporters that strikes had taken place, confirming that they had been carried out as part of U.S. anti-drug trafficking operations in the region.
