Trump Releases Footage US Attack On ‘Drug-Carrying Submarine’

President Donald J. Trump announced Saturday that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean obliterated a “very large drug-carrying submarine,” killing two suspected narco-terrorists and capturing two others in what the president described as a “major victory in the fight against fentanyl.”

In a statement posted to Truth Social, President Trump revealed that the vessel was transporting “fentanyl and other narcotics” toward the United States on a “well known narcotrafficking transit route.” He added that the interdiction likely prevented up to 25,000 American overdose deaths.

“No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Under my watch, the United States of America will not tolerate narcoterrorists trafficking illegal drugs, by land or by sea,” Trump said.

The President also ordered the release of video footage showing the precision strike. Fox News reported that two survivors were rescued by the U.S. Navy and are now being held aboard an American warship. Trump’s announcement confirmed their nationalities and the ongoing intelligence investigation into their cartel ties.

The operation marks the sixth U.S. interdiction of a suspected smuggling vessel since Trump authorized new combat operations in the Caribbean last month, part of his broader effort to dismantle drug cartels operating in the Western Hemisphere. While the Pentagon has not disclosed the mission’s official name, sources describe it as part of a wider “counter-narcoterrorism surge.”

President Trump first mentioned the mission publicly on Friday during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, telling reporters,

“We attacked a submarine, and that was a drug-carrying submarine built specifically for the transportation of massive amounts of drugs.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that additional details would be released in due time, emphasizing that U.S. operations in the Caribbean are ongoing and coordinated with regional allies.

Earlier this week, Trump confirmed that he had authorized CIA operations in the region, following a U.S. Air Force B-52 “show of force” mission near Venezuelan waters.

The Trump administration’s renewed push against narcoterrorism reflects growing frustration with the fentanyl crisis — a scourge that has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, much of it tied to chemicals from China and production in Mexico.

Fentanyl’s deadly reach prompted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in 2023 to introduce an amendment to impose the death penalty for fentanyl smugglers.

“300 Americans are murdered each day by fentanyl. It’s the leading killer of young people, 18–34, in America,” Greene said.

Other Republicans have backed similar measures, including Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who sponsored the Death Penalty for Dealing Fentanyl Act of 2022, calling for life imprisonment or capital punishment for dealers who knowingly distribute the deadly substance.

“We must get tough on those criminals that are contributing to this drug crisis,” Gosar stated. “More Americans have died in the last 23 years of drug poisoning than in all combat losses combined since 1775.”

Republican lawmakers have long linked the fentanyl epidemic to the Biden-era border crisis, arguing that open-border policies allowed drug cartels to flourish and flood U.S. streets with lethal narcotics.

Now, with President Trump back in the White House, the message to the cartels — and to the nations that enable them — could not be clearer: the United States is back in control.