"Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The vessel was transiting along a known drug trafficking route, and six people were killed in the strike, while none of the US military personnel were injured, Trump added.