Trump claimed that 300 million people have died from drugs, so that justifies the

[tblue37]

killing of the 11 people on that boat.

That would be most of the US population, which is just under 350 million!

Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal

Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-15T01:00:10.373Z

[MrWowWow]

1. tr💩mp is senile

And just needs to do civilization a favor and stroke out.

Reference Info:

The WHO estimates 600,000 deaths/year globally are attributable to illicit drug (psychoactive drug) use (excluding alcohol).
URL: https://www.who.int/health-topics/drugs-psychoactive

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/opioid-overdose

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. No.

He needs to live with all his faculties intact so he can watch as we destroy his legacy and his empire and then have to live in prison like a 'commoner'. THAT is what I want and I will not be happy If he goes before he has to live with his decisions.

Otherwise, none of the crap I was taught about justice or 'good triumphing over evil' means anything.

[durablend]

12. That's never happening

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. See the last sentence in my post. (n/t)

[C_U_L8R]

2. "I know you are but what am I"

Trump's evasiveness is asinine but effective with a media who won't push back.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump's trying to diminish gun violence as an issue

[applegrove]

4. How many have died from lack of healthcare?

[Irish_Dem]

8. Trump killed one million Americans during Covid.

[EndlessWire]

5. He just makes up numbers.

He makes up whatever he thinks will support what he did. What a lousy excuse for killing 11 people. We didn't have that right. And now he's facing some heat. He's got a substantial amount of force out there, and I guess he thinks he can accost ships in international waters. He's got something else up his sleeve, and this is just the side show. But, people don't support these murders.

[Emile]

6. I would call it murder.

[Irish_Dem]

7. He makes up the most ridiculous lies to justify his evil crimes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. tRump is right or should be

Lies from the president should be illegal, such as bogus statistics about drugs when it is the excuse for tariff taxes, deportations, and extrajudicial killings.

"What is illegal is the bogus deadly unnecessary totalitarian lie masquerading as a fact"

... fixed it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. MaddowBlog-Why Trump's math fail on the deadly boat strike was more than just an embarrassing flub

Two weeks after the administration killed suspected drug dealers in international waters, the president tried to defend the strike. It didn’t go well.

Why Trump’s math fail on the deadly boat strike was more than just an embarrassing flub www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-09-15T20:13:26.870Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-math-fail-deadly-boat-strike-was-just-embarrassing-flub-rcna231395

This came to mind over the weekend because Bondi apparently isn’t the only one who’s struggling with drug-related math. HuffPost reported:

President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to justify the fatal U.S. strike on a Venezuelan boat by claiming that 300 million people, presumably Americans, died from drugs last year. He was off by almost 300 million.

During a brief Q&A, a reporter noted that the president of Venezuela has argued that the U.S. military strike on a Venezuelan boat was “illegal.” Trump replied, “What’s illegal are the drugs that were on the boat, and the drugs that are being sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs. That’s what’s illegal.”

Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal

Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-15T01:00:10.373Z

So, a few things.

First, the actual number of people who died in the U.S. from drug overdoses last year was roughly 75,000. That total is a tragedy, and officials have a responsibility to take steps to reduce avoidable fatalities — but the gap between 75,000 and 300 million is enormous.

Second, I realize that Trump’s approach to statistics and arithmetic has been a mess for many years, but it really ought to occur to him that such an exaggeration sounds absurd, since illicit drugs did not kill nearly 90% of the U.S. population in 2024. (Bill Lueders recently wrote for The Bulwark, “Whatever the claim, the president has the numbers to prove it, even if he has to make them up.”).....

Complicating matters, The New York Times reported that the boat in question “had altered its course and appeared to have turned around before the attack started.” And while the reporting hasn’t been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, that raises the possibility that U.S. officials, acting on the president’s order, launched a deadly military strike against civilians who were retreating — making it that much more difficult to characterize the boat as an imminent threat.

As Senate Democrats press the White House for answers, Trump and his team have had two weeks to come up with some sensible answers. So far, they don’t appear to have come up with anything but a preposterous statistic.

[Attilatheblond]

13. 300 Million died from drugs last year?

Damn, you'd think it'd be easier to find a parking place.

[Attilatheblond]

14. If his stats are correct, there shouldn't be a housing shortage.

Do magas actually believe the BS he pulls out of the air?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Maga and trump do not understand math

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Geez, Even If That Was An International Number...

There'd be nobody left on earth in 29 years.