"This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility," Trump wrote on Truth Social. Trump also told reporters at the Oval Office that evidence confirmed the boat was loaded with cocaine and fentanyl. The latest strike follows a September 2 operation that targeted a suspected Tren de Aragua drug boat, leaving 11 people dead. In an interview with Fox News, Rubio argued that "interdiction alone is not going to stop these drug traffickers... "What's illegal are the drugs that were on the boat," he told the Guardian when pressed on the legality of the strikes.