Trump administration announces crackdown on international drug trade amid pandemic

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President Trump announces counter-narcotics operation to combat drug trafficking amid the coronavirus pandemic: “There’s a growing threat that cartels, criminals, terrorists and other malign actors will try to exploit the situation.'

 

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that's so more people will die his revenge against the people

Yeah. Those cartels are called trump businesses and kushner businesses.

He looks like a white eyed racoon!! Haha!

Errrr, okay

Projection

the abuse of power and trampling of constitutional rights these last 4 years all because people hated realDonaldTrump becoming president is downright scary!

I like a president who doesn't tell the enemy what he's going to do......Didn't Trump say this about Obama when it was announced we'd leave Iraq? How stupid is this guy to tell the cartels what he's going to do. Isn't it ironic? or moronic? TrumpLiesEverytimeHeSpeaks

Naturally msnbc picks a picture of our president that makes him look goofy. I bet the lowlife media had a good chuckle over it. So mature

Yeah, well on today’s CONfrence he also ‘announced’ that our government responded quickly. Uh....NO.

Trump is exploiting this situation! He needs to resign!

SMH

Who in the world believes this nonsense. Just a distraction to change the narrative away from DT and his mistakes.

Kerk

Trumps is the hoax that's destroying our country.

IdiotInChief

What a diversion. Effing evil clown 🤡

What a joke

How about the growing threat here, you God damned goon!?

Distraction Subterfuge!

The only cartels, criminals, terrorists and other malign actors I care about right now are either sitting in the WH or have GOP after their names.

Just a distraction he wanted to play to his base which he hasn’t been able to do recently. For trump getting re-elected is the only thing that matters

realDonaldTrump POTUS Biden/Harris 2020

Just Legalizecannabis!

He’s gotta have a fresh enemy to divert attention from his obvious failures. Sadly 50% of the population falls for it time after time.

Great News

Flush the turd Nov 3rd !

What? No Pirates of the Caribbean joining forces with Caravans to attack border states en mass? Where are the Zombies, werewolves and vampires?

Its ashamed when other Americans bring in illegal immigrants and pit them against fellow Americans for personal gain. While our troops are bleeding and dying overseas to fight terrorism; now we have coronavirus where is the justice.

Squirrel

Smartest President ever... They will be judged by their own wicked actions... We are STILL WINNNNNNNNNNING...

This man is the worst thing ever to happen to this country.

Start by countering the narcotics evidently in abundance at the White House.

Because trump is so obviously incapable and the world knows it, there could be multiple disasters. We are sitting ducks.

The more I look at HIM , the more I respect him. The more I see Pelosi , the more I despise her !!!

Then Trump should start looking into his own party !

HE AND HIS FAMILY are exploiting the situation!!

There’s growing realization that Jared Kushner is taking advantage of this situation!

Glad he included himself in the list!

Oh, bore us with diversionary tactics. Those of us with brains know what you're doing

realDonaldTrump MasterOfDistractions

This might even be valid. But he has played political games with nationalism and crime and fear so often, I don't know

WHAT ABOUT THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT? Asking for about 5,000 of my brothers and sisters.

Where is the proof?

Are there caravans? Trump is a nitwit and that's being kind.

The briefing yesterday explains why he was able to get so much done in his first 3 1/2 years. He’s managing the virus, staging infrastructure legislation, Mexican army border security, joint action war on drug cartels, warning shots to terrorist abroad while looking well rested.

😳🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡 Insanity.

Someone told him the f...ing wall had a drug tunnel under it from Mexico to San Diego. IMPOTUS dumber than a box of rocks. NegligentHomicide

Let’s see, which one is Trump? * Cartel, check! * Criminal, check! * Terrorist, check! * Malign actor, check! Hope they focus this “operation” on the cancer in the White House.

As usual trying to distract.

Please go away.

Keep your eye on the shiny object? The wall will fix it all? Quarantine the illegals and make our problems worse. I would say they aren't coming and the agents we have now are probably bored to tears. Trump will funnel more money to the wall that will ends up back in his pocket.

DOMESTIC TERRORIST ALERT!!!

Good idea we have to be prepared

Bullshit. Another distraction for trump. Squirrel!

In the book, A Very Stable Genius, Trump is seen holding press conferences on a whim, not because he has any real news to announce, but because he loves a show. Interesting.

Hey look over here at this shiny object... Don’t look at those bodies piling up...

Which one of those 4 groups does tRump & his cronies belong to? All 4! He will be exploiting the situation for sure!

' D I V E R T I O N '!!!!!!!!

American people need to know where every penny of the donations for this pandemic are being utilized Bill Gates: $100,000,000 donation could have fed the starving and homeless and bought supplies for front line heroes.

Desperately looking for any distractions. Americans know better. This is what this Reality TV POTUS has been playing for 3 yrs. DoYourJob. incompetenceKills

We’re done with Bad Hombres. Stick to the playbook, Trump.

Trump knows best how to exploit a situation

Well, he should know. 🙄

I can assure they not tryna do nothing cuz they lungs is bad already

Another lame ass distraction.

When Trump accuses someone of doing something illegal, it's a deflection, because HE is the one actually doing it. We need to be watching Trump and his businesses very carefully. I fully believe he will find ways to steal the bailout money.

And Trump's the 1 exploiter!

Caravans? What about the caravans

This is BS & he & his handlers know it!!

Just skip the briefing.

Trump hates competition..

What the US Government hasn't been Fighting the International Drug Trade Already? That has to be 24/7 365!

This sounds like another Trump conspiracy theory intent on distracting everyone from his lack of leadership.

Stop helping his campaign 🤦‍♂️ y'all idiots you guys never learn

Why was Kellyanne Conway there? She was sitting on the sidelines watching today’s “press briefing“

Why are you so late reporting info? I read about this earlier this morning. It makes you look inefficient and you're my fav news source.

Lies. I bet you he's one of those cartels. Check his background

This is from The Onion, right?

I didn't expect the bogeymen until late October.

Trump fiddles while Rome burns. Congress, we need help. Where are the masks, where are the respirators, where are the ventilators? Make Trump use Defense Production Act SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer JoeBiden

Can anyone say 'pathetic distraction' Try dealing with the PPE situation before you spread your massive skills too thin, Trump POTUS Scumbag.

That potentially OK argument only went on for about 90 seconds. Then it went straight to border security and… The Wall

What the heck?! We are abt to see a surge in the deaths of many Americans all over the Nation, & he takes his eye off that?

He looks wasted.

He's talking about the MyPillow guy, the Walmart guy, the Atlas Air guy, the Amazon guy, the Kushner Construction guy, the Trump Government Contracts guy and the Ivanka Coffins sweetie pie.

*EXPLOIT* he must be talking about the greedy businesses that's upping their prices and MoscowMitch claiming impeachment hindered pandemic response.🤭 senatemajldr CNN FoxNews realDonaldTrump

Priorities

fatnixon does it again

Latest updates | Countries with confirmed cases per million population of COVID 👇 CoronaAlert COVID19Pandemic

So what r we to do? Will be be having 'corona seasons' where everyone takes off 3 months or dies? Will this be a yearly thing

Insider trading by public officials is a bigger threat...

At this point in time, there is more of a need to provide testing kits to all states along w PPE to all states. Instead Trump wl increase destroyers and Coast Guard to fight narcotics, drug cartels coronavirus shud b his priority

Like whom?

Covid-19 is an equal opportunity killer. It's not business as usual for anyone.

Trump should know! TrumpFail CoronaVirus

He doesn't like the competition.

Yeah he’s standing at the podium.

Trump's right. He hits at least 3 of 4: He's a criminal, a terrorist, and a malign actor, and he's done nothing but try to exploit the situation.

tRump needs to so one thing at a time. You can tell he dodged the draft because you don’t see him with a hazmat suit on visiting hospitals. I’d not hospitals these towns, he should be meeting with Governors and state officials. He should be in the trenches. Not tRump.

Anything now to deflect. Iran, narcitics? F Trump, this Death and 1929 debt is all on him. He can not bull shit us anymore. Look at employment the next 2 days. Equities deserve to crumble with Trump NPR thehill MarketWatch AP Reuters washingtonpost nytimes PBS

Trump looks SO ridiculous with those white, saggy eyes and that orange burnt skin.

Tupac said it best “Instead of a war on poverty, we got a war on drugs so the police can bother me”.

People are dying, man. Get a hold of this pandemic, issue national policy, make more testing available, streamline supplies manufacturing and distribution and get organize medical professionals. WTH is wrong with him?

👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Is Trump in need of changing the national attention from the pandemic to narcotics? When streets are empty & most people at home, isn’t it difficult to move & distribute prohibited drugs? Is Trump building a scenario so he can praise himself for reducing drug trade at this time?

Incredible they would take more advantage of our suffering than he and his lock step GOP.

Come on. Really! You think drug cartels are going to expose their distribution networks to the virus. They are smarter than that. They know people don’t have money to spend on this now.

People are self medicating because they’re scared shitless and can’t trust their own President.

WT?

And I believe you fall under the 'criminals' and other 'malign characters' who is trying to exploit this situation. 25th45

Oh ffs!

Remember, he’s got NPD. So when he says others are trying to exploit the situation it means he is going to exploit the situation. He’s always projecting, always.

TrumpShutTheFockUp

Yea... Good Luck with that!

This president can multi task, he works better when things look crazy, This proves the strength of America.

STFU

Good job

So he can multi task? Hmmm. Moscow Mitch implies Donny couldn’t. Good to know.😂😉

But the sham impeachment trial was too distracting? 🙄

This is batshit crazy. We are in the throes of a pandemic, and Trump wants to look presidential and tough by sending our troops to Venezuela to fight the drug cartels? It's not helping his image one bit

Not the time, Tubby

I already forgot about Covid-19 killing 100.000s people.

Won't this expose everyone in the counter-narcotics operation to COVID 19?

WTF?

What?!. What are you up to now? What are you trying to distract us from now we will find out we're clever 🤭

Will the caravans be returning as well?

Distraction at best Bragging about a kernel of corn in a pile of shit.

Reason enough for him to resign.

Another sleight-of-hand

'... other malign actors will try to exploit the situation.' - He's describing himself and the Trump GOP. TrumpOwnsEveryDeath TrumpLiesAmericansDie MAGA?

Trump is such a bad joke.

Trump has moved on to trying to distract us from his disastrous lack of leadership during this pandemic. covid19 coronavirus Drugcartels

Yet another attempt at distraction!!

Criminals are leaders who kill their own citizens. You are one of them, not the cartels

Really dude

and their names are trump pence barr mnuchin...

Why?

Distract, distract, distract.

Nice try Shirley, you are trying to distract

Change the subject Who cares about this shit?

Who cares about th is s now

TRUMP WANTS TO CONTROL EVERYTHING TRUMP US GENOCIDE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE YA DRUGS THE STATE LET ALL PEOPLE OUT IF JAIL SO ALL LOCK UR DOORS AND LOCKED COCKED AND READY TO ROCK D BRING ON THE SCUM

Hogwash

They need to stop the drug trade in the WhiteHouse.

We need to keep our eyes on another group of people that will exploit the situation and that of course is Trump and his regime that are always looking for ways to put our tax money in their own pockets

networks: shut him down from his free daily political rallies🇺🇸🇺🇸 people: just shut him off🇺🇸🇺🇸

WTF

Boy I be glad when this nut is gone. Being a president is not a job for him

Why in he'll would you announce that

Oh good thing he’s on this between his tweets

Its this guy for real’nn

He just had to change the subject.

The only people *exploiting* this situation are Trump, his criminal family, and the corrupt GOP who profited off their intelligence information! CorruptAndComplicitGOP TrumpIsTheWORSTPresidentEVER

He's exploiting the situation and no one is doing anything about that. Hell, he and COVID-19 will take us out before the cartel.

Nice attempt at a distraction Trump

When he started speaking about drugs, after what's been going on, I thought something big was breaking. Here it was a diversion, and those forced praises 🤢🤮, turned the channel.

Bruh don’t you have to worry about the fact that you’ve becoma terrorist to the very people that elected you? How about actually taking that money and using it for ohnidk helojnfnojt the stayes that you decided to not help until they said nice things about you trumptheterrorist

.... and he wants to save that exploitation for himself.

Mexican border shut down .... Another Distraction....

Is this the same as the hoards of immigrants storming our southern border? A hoax to distract from Covid 19 failures?

drugs might be a GREAT outlet about now. far more comforting than Trump.

Look at the shiny object everyone!

It’s the caravans all over again.

Quit airing his press releases or should I say his campaign rallies! TurnOffTrump

The new “caravans”.

ugh

Get the Damn narcotics pigs.

Anything but misuse of test. Listen people, it's all abou the tests. We know who have the virus, the separation is easy. He misused the tests. Why else but financial gain. Remember his reasoning is criminally flawed.

Like trump!

🔊Please...make sure to give ALL drugs confiscated, to hospitals that are running low on meds to help comfort covid patients!!!!!!!👍💞

Diversion

He's absolutely insane. Or this is exactly what we expect from an insecure weenie-man.

Oh, so you don't like the competition on exploiting the american people like you do daily?

With so many boats in port, it’s gotten very difficult to identify drug traffickers?

Sounds like someone’s afraid of competition.... 🤔

Bullshit!!!!

It’s the ol’ caravan of invaders trick again. Man, his supporters are so damn gullible!

He already used the caravan card. No repeats.

More distractions.

Thank you Mr President 👍good job!

TIKA!

Ridiculous . Exploit?

No more than he’s exploiting it for his political gains: holding back desperately-needed equipment from states with Democratic governors, for one. COVIDー19 WeNeedAPresident This isn’t leadership.

People are dying... squirrel! Look over there! Don’t mind the man behind the curtain!

Because priorities

So what? You guys are really nic picking

Clown

Malign actors, are you talking about yourself again?

He's opening the door to go in militarily to over throw Maduro.

Because that is what he would do.

Crazy train

The country is on lockdown so how are drugs getting in. Must be through the government.

Where is your priority mr president?

What the fuck TRUMP?

Deflect deflect. It’s Trump’s fail and deflect MO.

The Trump crime family and the GOP are the only 'malign actors' that are getting away with millions at the expense of lives

Totally ridiculous ... a poor attempt at deflection.

Press pretended that president's talking about his fighting this type of crime amid COVID-19 pandemic was as important as the president thought it was by asking questions the president wanted. MSNBC did very good analysis & fact checking of both of the president's announcements.

Okay, so... Infrastructure didn't gain any traction, and he lost his little bump in the polls... So it's back to scary brown people coming to kill us in our beds to draw back the frightened old white rubes?

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