Trump says the U.S. took out a 'big facility' in Venezuela amid strikes on alleged drug boats

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Dec. 29, 2025, 9:05 AM EST


WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in an interview with WABC radio in New York that the U.S. had “knocked out” a Venezuelan facility, a move that would be a major escalation in U.S. military strikes to counter alleged drug-trafficking by the South American country.

The apparent attack follows months of U.S. military pressure, including dozens of strikes on boats in international waters. The White House has claimed that the boats carried drugs, though officials have not provided evidence.

In the short phone interview on Friday, Trump responded to a comment about Venezuela by touting the administration's attacks on alleged drug boats before referring to a strike on a "big plant or big facility" that he said took place two nights earlier. "We just knocked out — I don't know if you read or you saw — they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from," Trump said in the interview. "Two nights ago we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard."

Trump did not provide further details about the apparent attack on the facility, which if correct would be the first known land strike in the U.S. counternarcotics efforts against Venezuela. NBC News has not independently confirmed the strike. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the president's remarks.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-land-strike-venezuela-facility-drug-boats-rcna251329

[walkingman]

1. Why? Does anyone know why we are killing these people?

[sakabatou]

4. I don't think anyone knows, other than to "look tough"

If the boats were smuggling drugs, it would've been better to stop and inspect the cargo than just blow the boats up.

[Probatim]

2. So they bombed a marina? I think marina was the word for the building numbnuts was looking for.

"big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from"

[William Seger]

5. Sounds like even he doesn't know what he's talking about -- nothing new (nt)

[Wiz Imp]

6. Boats carrying 8-10 people like they've been bombing are not ships.

[EX500rider]

30. I imagine he meant a jungle facility up a river where they build the narco-subs nt

[Vinca]

3. Let me guess . . . a tuna processing plant?

[chouchou]

13. I was thinking along your thoughts..like, "Joe Blow's little sidewalk Marijuana Shopee.."

[TBF]

7. This is the part I find particularly scary -

he mentions these things in passing and I'm like "WHAT?!?" ... who knows what the heck they have been doing. They funneled so much money into Defense/ICE. I suspect when this regime is finally gone, we are going to learn about a lot more horrendous happenings that have not even come out yet.

[popsdenver]

16. Not at all different from

Reagan's PANAMA INVASION.............the Media in the U.S. hardly said anything, and yet the Media in countries all around the world was reporting the atrocities committed by the U.S. Military, that we hear in the U.S. heard absolutely nothing about.
There was even an award winning Documentary of the atrocities, that was circulated worldwide and BANNED from distribution in the United States. I got a friend in Europe to convert the video to the U.S. standards for video, and had him ship it to me.......
UN-fucking real what happened down there, that the U.S. Citizens never knew................

The reality was, that Reagan/HWBush had to deflect attention from something else they had done, and created the BS Panama Invasion........and had the U.S. Media only show what OUR government wanted their people to see....

[azureblue]

8. deluded old pedo

Lies again

[Botany]

9. He is insane

We are murdering innocent people in Venezuela because of Epstein and oil.

I hope this enough for the other other Western Democracies to pull their Ambassadors
this was an act of war on a Country that was not a threat to America. What “big facility”
a marina? A fishing or shipping port?

[Martin68]

10. "A big plant or a big facility?" Trump doesn't know what the target was?

[Prairie Gates]

11. Miller and Cheung invent things to tell Trump

It was only a matter of time before he started "hallucinating" (as we say these days) military attacks.

There was no plant or "facility" "you know, where the ships come from" hit by anything. The press needs to corroborate Trump's goofy claims at this point.

[BidenRocks]

12. These actions demand a trial

with extreme consequences.

America is a pirate state, a terrorist state, an aggressor state and a clear and present danger to the world.

We need to show we stand against this or we will face more attacks.

Remember 2025 started with a car driven into a crowded street, killing 15 in New Orleans.
Germany shortly after. Keep poking that bee hive!

The world hates chump and he is doing everything so the world hates Americans. Even Americans.

[Grins]

14. I'm sure it was the "biggest facility..."

"Hugely big! You wouldn't believe how big! The likes of which no one has ever seen!"

[Prairie Gates]

19. Seriously! Every other time they do anything, Hegseth and the rest of the creeps are like

"It was the greatest operation in the history of humanity!"

This time they're all like "No comment." Bull-fucking-shit. Trump made it up on the spot or one of his WH minions told him to mollify him, but asked him not to tell anybody because it's completely fabricated. But of course he did, because he's a senile old fool. Now everybody has to scramble, pretending that something actually happened.

It's so embarrassing that the Times actually published a piece on this. They have no proof that anything even happened. Clown shit.

[mwmisses4289]

15. If this were true, I would expect this would be the lead story

at the BBC, CBC, The Guardian, al Jezeera, and especially the South American news organizations. Nothing. Addle brain spouting lying delusions, as usual.

[riversedge]

18. Agree. Nothing in the papers. Have to

admit that I have been buzy so only glanced at several papers over the weekend.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. The Guardian and now ABC News has it

in tiny font on their front pages -

The Guardian - US struck ‘big facility’ in Venezuela, Trump claimed without offering details

ABC News - Trump says US 'knocked out' a 'big facility' in Venezuela

[BumRushDaShow]

21. "I would expect this would be the lead story at the BBC, CBC, The Guardian.."

The Guardian - US struck ‘big facility’ in Venezuela, Trump claimed without offering details

(in tiny font and basically "below the fold" )

Most of the news sites the past couple days have been MIA other than focusing on 2025 "Year in Review" articles, with Ukraine as the main headlined "news", and filling things out with sports, entertainment and other fluff pieces. The other "news" on those sites ends up being repeats of news from days ago and even regurgitating old articles from months, and years ago.

[riversedge]

17. The interview was last Friday--as per the article the land striketook place on Christmas Eve??

...........In the short phone interview on Friday, Trump responded to a comment about Venezuela by touting the administration's attacks on alleged drug boats before referring to a strike on a "big plant or big facility" that he said took place two nights earlier.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna251329

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[Bayard]

20. He's making this stuff up,

Or, Miller is whispering it in his ear.

But, here's the main reason:
"Venezuela is going to provide a lot more oil to the United States of America if Maduro leaves,"

I think media would be all over it if he had actually started his land war.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. "I think media would be all over it if he had actually started his land war."

Kegsbreath threw out all of the credible reporters in the Pentagon, so who really knows what the fuck is going on?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Cadet Bonespurs acts like it's a video game

[31st Street Bridge]

23. Everything. Said by Every Republican.

Is a LIE!

[Dave Bowman]

26. What did they supposedly bomb, a pillow factory?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. MaddowBlog-After striking Nigeria, Trump pushes dubious claim about targeting Venezuelan facility

If you voted for Trump because you expected restraint on foreign policy and the use of military force abroad, I have some bad news for you

It’s no small thing that Trump told the public last week that he ordered a military strike on a target on Venezuelan soil, and we have no idea whether he made that up. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-29T14:04:02.693Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/after-striking-nigeria-trump-pushes-dubious-claim-about-targeting-venezuelan-facility

Donald Trump has repeatedly said in recent weeks that he intends to start ordering military strikes on targets inside Venezuela, which made it all the more notable on Friday when the president said he’d already done exactly that.

The trouble is, there’s some uncertainty surrounding the existence of the operation.,,.

But while we’re left to wonder whether the sitting American president bragged about a foreign U.S. military strike that may or may not have happened, there’s far greater clarity about a foreign U.S. military strike that definitely happened. My MS NOW colleague Nicholas Grossman reported:

The United States military bombed Nigeria on Christmas, reportedly targeting ISIS militants. President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. struck terrorists ‘who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries.’

Nigeria has been plagued by sectarian violence, but that violence hasn’t primarily targeted Christians — and certainly not at historically unprecedented levels. America’s logic here isn’t clear, but the strikes appear driven more by Trump putting on a show for his evangelical base than trying to reduce violence in Nigeria or even advance U.S. national interests.

To be sure, the operation didn’t come out of nowhere. The Republican declared in early November that he was prepared to go into Nigeria “guns-a-blazing” in response to conditions on the ground that he didn’t seem to fully understand.....

For those keeping score, as 2025 nears its end, Trump this year has launched preemptive military strikes on targets in Iran, initiated a bombing campaign in Yemen, targeted ISIS sites in Syria, launched a bombing operation in Nigeria, struck ISIS targets in Somalia, and launched at least 29 deadly strikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean.

It’s possible that he also “knocked out” a facility on Venezuela, though it’s also possible he just made that up....

For good measure, it’s worth noting for context that the American president has also announced his desire to annex Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal and the Gaza Strip, and spoken publicly about possibly returning U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

[gfarber]

28. Strike

There once was a president’s claim
On radio waves, bold and plain:
“We knocked out a site,
Just a couple nights’ bite—
A big plant tied to drugs,” he did name.

For months there’d been pressure at sea,
With boats stopped repeatedly.
They said drugs were aboard,
Though proof wasn’t stored—
Just claims from the White House, you see.

In a call that was short, he went on,
Of ships and a place they’d come from.
“A facility big,
Where the traffickers dig—
We hit it,” he said, “job well done.”

But details were left in the air,
No photos, no briefings to share.
If land had been struck,
That would change all the luck
Of counternarcotics affairs.

Reporters all paused at the sound,
Since proof hadn’t yet been found.
NBC checked twice,
Couldn’t verify the slice—
And comments from aides? None around.

So the story now waits to be told,
With questions still carefully held:
Was a line crossed that night,
Or just talk on the mic?
Time will sort fact from the bold.

[SergeStorms]

29. So he bombed a Costco?

That's a "facility." So is a church.
That "nattering nabob of negativism" is nucking futs.