Trump admin claims alleged war crimes saved ‘hundreds of millions of lives’

The Trump administration has been accused of illegally killing civilian targets in the Caribbean – something which they’ve admitted to themselves (although they dispute it being ‘illegal’).

Donald Trump and his cronies have excused their behaviour by claiming the people on the boats they blew up were ‘narco-terrorists’. And in their efforts to convince people these strikes have merit, they’re saying things like this:

Pam Bondi claimed Trump saved "258 million lives" by stopping fentanyl.

Trump this Monday said: "300 million people died last year from drugs."

Now Kristi Noem says something similarly insane.

Total number of US overdose deaths for 2024: 70,000.pic.twitter.com/G0ljUZMpga

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 3, 2025

Nonsense

The US isn’t just blowing up boats; it’s also murdering the survivors – a fact which puts them solidly into the realm of war crimes:

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.…

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 28, 2025

Based on the Commander’s Legal Handbook issued by the Judge Advocate General, Pete Hegseth’s orders for a second strike to execute survivors were illegal and constitute a war crime.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. pic.twitter.com/F7xpiVI1TT

— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) November 29, 2025

The woman speaking in the video at the top is Kirsti Noem, the US secretary of Homeland Security. She’s famous for a couple of things:

• Executing her pet dog.
• Running around with ICE (i.e. the American Gestapo) on their migrant raids.

Here’s Kristi Noem giving a pep talk to ICE agents to target protestors (who she describes as violent) for behaviors including how they talk and speak.

What is she trying to do?
pic.twitter.com/VsZlDjVwHY

— Lucas Sanders 💙🗳️🌊💪🌈🚺🟧 (@LucasSa56947288) October 4, 2025

In the video above, Noem says:

You’ve saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean.

The current population of America is around 340 million people. Either these Yanks think they’re less than two years away from extinction, or they believe there was something like ten billion Americans when the War on Drugs began. Either way, they’re the worst at maths that anyone has ever been.

To be fair, as noted above, Trump himself claimed ‘300 million people’ died from drug overdoses. As such, the servile lickspittles surrounding him have no option but to go along with his stupidity. The alternative would be to maintain some sense of dignity and to embarrass their boss.

Clearly, the Trump administration have no dignity left – and neither do the UK’s homegrown lickspittles who seek to emulate what’s happening over there:

My message is clear: if you’re here illegally, you will be detained and deported.

Our new Removals Force, modelled on US ICE, will deport 150,000 illegal migrants each year. pic.twitter.com/mjQwuSe77w

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) October 5, 2025

Featured image via Office of the Governor, South Dakota