President Donald Trump defended potential U.S. “land strikes” targeting drug traffickers, including in Venezuela, during a recent press briefing. He highlighted the administration’s efforts to intercept 96% of drugs entering the U.S. via waterways and claimed that land operations would soon begin to combat narcotics smuggling more effectively. Trump emphasized the human toll of drugs, citing hundreds of thousands of American deaths annually, and described the operations as targeting “horrible people” responsible for trafficking. While he did not confirm plans to seize additional Venezuelan oil assets, he stressed the broader anti-drug objective and the need to protect American families from the ongoing crisis.