President Donald Trump simply killed off many of the U.S. inhabitants with weird feedback on Sunday about what number of Individuals have died of drug overdoses.
Trump was taking questions from reporters at Morristown Airport in New Jersey earlier than he heads off on an abroad journey Tuesday for a state go to to the UK.
Whereas he was bragging concerning the historic nature of his journey to the U.Okay. and the way the British royals are opening Windsor Fortress for Trump’s state dinner, “It’s going to be thrilling,” he inadvertently bungled the reply to a query about his administration blowing up boats off the coast of Venezuela.
A reporter instructed Trump, “Venezuela referred to as the strike on the boat unlawful.” Then, Trump was requested if he was involved the assaults on Venezuelan boats may escalate.
Trump tried to justify the administration’s assaults on the boats, insisting they had been attempting to deliver medication into the US.
“What’s unlawful are the medication that had been on the boat and the medication which might be being despatched into our nation and the truth that 300 million folks died final yr from medication. That’s what’s unlawful,” Trump acknowledged, omitting any rationalization of why abstract execution in worldwide waters and never interdiction in American waters was the legally permissible response.
The 300 million determine is sort of your complete inhabitants of the US, which the U.S. Census Bureau places at simply over 342 million.
In Might, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention reported an estimated 80,391 Individuals died in overdose deaths in 2024, a 26.9 % lower from the 110,000 estimated deaths in 2023.
Nonetheless, some viewers argued that Trump didn’t explicitly say the place these folks died.
“May need been speaking concerning the world genius,” one viewer wrote. “Trump didn’t say 300 Million Individuals – nor 300 Million folks within the US died of medicine. He stated 300 million folks. Interval. Finish of sentence. There may be sufficient B.S. that Trump does say that there isn’t any have to make up headlines like this one. There are greater than 8.2 Billion folks on the earth, it is rather doable that 300 million folks died worldwide because of drug overdoses,” one other viewer wrote.
Nonetheless, in accordance with the World Well being Group, about 600,000 folks die yearly from drug use worldwide.
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This isn’t the primary time Trump has made unfounded claims concerning the variety of U.S. drug deaths. Earlier this month, he stated he thought 300,000 folks had died of drug overdoses in 2024 or “350,000 folks died final yr from medication.”
“We all know Trump simply makes up numbers for the cameras with no information to again something up. His latest remark that 300M folks die of drug overdoses a yr is so ridiculous even grade schoolers can do the mathematics. That’s virtually the entire US. World overdoses avg about 600k a yr,” X person Dangerous Linda Robotic stated.
“How TF this man is the President of the USA?” one other X person requested.
“He’s flawed. It’s a billion gazillion folks,” MeidasTouch media co-founder Ben Meiselas jokingly posted in response.
“Possibly it’s really a gazillion trillion folks. Trump’s dementia have to be kicking in,” one other X person steered.
“So we’re all useless? That will clarify lots,” this X person questioned.
In justifying the second strike on a Venezuelan vessel on Monday, Trump stated observers may see the luggage stuffed with medication on the boat.
“We knew it earlier than they even left. We knew it earlier than they even left, we knew precisely the place that boat, the place it got here from, the place the medication got here from and the place it was headed,” the president boasted.
He additionally claimed the U.S. has really destroyed three Venezuelan drug boats, though the administration has solely confirmed the newest strike, which killed three folks, and one other one two weeks in the past that killed 11.
