President Donald Trump hinted Saturday morning that Mexican drug cartels could be the next target of American military action during a phone interview on Fox News.
American military forces, including Delta Force, protected a law enforcement operation that arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas early Saturday morning, Trump announced in a post on Truth Social. "Fox and Friends Weekend" co-host Charlie Hurt asked if Trump was using the takedown of Maduro to send a message to Mexico.
"She's a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. She's not running Mexico, the cartels are running Mexico," Trump said, referring to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. "And we can be politically correct and be nice and say … she's very frightened of the cartels, they're running Mexico. I've asked her numerous times, would you like us to take out the cartels. 'No, no, no, Mr. President, no, no, no, please.'"
"So, we have to do something because we lost – the real number is 300,000 people, in my opinion. They like to say 100,000. 100,000 is a lot of people, but the real number is 300,000 people," Trump continued. "And we lost them to drugs. And they come in through the southern border, mostly the southern border. Plenty come in through Canada, too, by the way, in case you don't know. But they come in through the southern border, and something's going to have to be done with Mexico."
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