"Mr. President, thank you so much for taking questions with your assembled cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela. You had said that you didn't know if the second strike on that one boat had happened, but you wouldn't have wanted it, Gutierrez began, adding: Now that your administration has acknowledged that it happened, do you support that second strike?"
"Well, look, all I know is this: every boat that you see get blown up, we save 25,000 on average lives45,000 lives. They've been sending enough of this horrible fentanyl and other things like cocaine and other things, but fentanyl right now is the leader of the pack to kill our entire nation, because a little speck on the head of a pin can kill somebody. It's very dangerous stuff."
"As far as the attack is concerned, I didn'tyou know, I still haven't gotten a lot of information because I rely on Pete. But to me it was an attack. It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes. Somebody asked me a question about the second strike. I didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know anything about people."
Gabe Gutierrez pressed President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about a double-tap strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat near Venezuela that reportedly killed survivors. Critics are labeling the second attack a war crime amid a growing scandal over what Hegseth ordered and the timing of those orders. Gutierrez asked whether the president supports the second strike now that the administration has acknowledged it happened and whether Hegseth knew survivors were present after the initial strike. Trump emphasized the danger of fentanyl, said he relies on Hegseth for information, and stated he did not know about the second strike.
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