EPIC: Trump Taunts Cartel By Posting THIS On White House Socials

After 4 years of Biden’s letting them wreak havoc in America, it’s nice to see the pendulum swing the other direction.

Under Biden, you will remember, Venezuela had special protections for immigration status, and he offered no objections to unvetted Venezuelans from streaming in over the border.

The number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encounters of Venezuelan migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border grew rapidly from 49,000 in fiscal year (FY) 2021 to 188,000 the following year and 266,000 in FY 2023. Encounters slowed over the course of FY 2024 and fell slightly to 261,000, following increased enforcement by authorities in Panama and Mexico, as well as new asylum restrictions imposed by the Biden administration. The administration developed a carrot-and-stick approach aimed at combining legal temporary pathways and statuses for Venezuelans (and migrants from other troubled countries) with restrictions on access to asylum for crossing the border irregularly.
The Biden administration designated Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in 2021, allowing significant numbers of Venezuelans already in the United States to receive work authorization and protection from deportation; it expanded eligibility in 2023. As of January 2025, approximately 607,000 Venezuelan nationals were estimated to be covered by TPS. — Migration Policy Institute

Being welcomed to America does not mean they had any intention of reciprocating our good will. In fact, the TDA criminal cartel has been serving as Venezuela’s proxy army against American interests.

If this idea is new to you, may we suggest ‘Venezuela’s Gray War: A Criminal Army, A Migrant Wave And The US ‘Invasion’? as ‘required reading’ to get up to speed on the topic.

From that article, published in late May of this year:

Venezuela’s regime under Nicolás Maduro[1] is waging a gray zone war[2] against the United States and its neighbors through irregular means. Criminal proxies, narcotics, and forced migration are no longer only side effects of state collapse—they are also tools of strategic destabilization. This article examines how Venezuela’s use of violent gangs, particularly Tren de Aragua (TdA),[3] and embedded operatives, aligns with modern hybrid warfare doctrine and poses serious security challenges for the United States and the region.

Most outside observers still view Venezuela’s collapse as a humanitarian crisis.[4] That view is incomplete. Nicolás Maduro’s regime has adopted irregular warfare tactics—similar to those used by Russia, Cuba, China, and Iran—to weaken its neighbors and rivals without direct conflict.[5] Narcotics trafficking, forced migration, and violent gangs are being used deliberately, not incidentally.[6] […] Venezuela isn’t fighting a conventional war—but that doesn’t mean it’s at peace. Maduro’s regime has adopted a strategy that falls somewhere in between, relying on irregular tactics to weaken its rivals without ever firing a shot. This ‘gray zone’ warfare uses criminal networks, political disruption, and mass migration to pressure rivals while staying below the threshold of open conflict.

Rather than continue Biden’s policy of giving TDA gang members free room and board in major cities around the country where they can build and establish their criminal networks and terrorize the locals, Team Trump has been arresting and deporting them as fast as they can.

Dems, not surprisingly, have been throwing sand in the gears every chance they get. But there is another way this admin can put the hurt to criminal cartels who have played a hand in the deaths of thousands by way of crime, violence, and fentanyl poisoning. He can take the fight to them.

Yesterday, Trump announced some early success in doing exactly that, by releasing video of a drug cartel boat getting smoked while running in international waters.

DOD posted footage of the successful elimination of a positively-identified operation of a designated terrorist operation.

. @POTUS “Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of… pic.twitter.com/aAyKOb9RHb

— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) September 2, 2025

Very offical-sounding and diplomatic, as you would expect from official channels.

The President, on the other hand, has more latitude to inject his personality into such announcements, whether personally or by way of his staff.

And he did exactly that.