Conservative Commentators Cheer for Bloodshed in the Caribbean
Source: Rolling Stone
Conservative Commentators Cheer for Bloodshed in the Caribbean
Nikki McCann Ramirez
Fri, December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM EST·5 min read
Donald Trump’s administration for months now has been celebrating dubiously legal air strikes the military has been carrying out against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, many Americans look on in horror, and the charred remains of bodies are washing up on Caribbean beaches, with locals suspecting they may be the evidence of airstrikes on the boats. It now appears that one of the strikes may have been in violation of a cardinal rule of international conflict, after the military launched a second missile to kill off the survivors of a strike in early September. Conservatives have continued to celebrate.
Neither the families of the sunken dead nor the American public have received any concrete justification as to why these men — some of them fishermen with no discernible criminal history — were condemned to die. The Trump administration has employed the same reasoning they have used for the sweep of detainments, deportations, disappearances, and imprisonments the government has carried out over the past year: these are terrorists. But even as elected members of the Republican Party begin to cast doubt on the legality of the president’s maritime executions — and the blank-check power the administration has given itself under the guise of counterterrorism — influencers and commentators who only recently decried the Biden administration as lawless abusers of the justice system are demanding more bloodshed.
“I really do kind of not only want to see them killed in the water, whether they’re on the boat or in the water, but I’d really like to see them suffer,” former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly told her podcast audience this week. “I would like Trump and [Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little.”
Current Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said on Tuesday that while it would “be great to kill a terrorist while he’s terrorizing,” what “are the odds of that?”
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