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Alexandra Ulmer - Reuters
US President-elect Donald Trump says he will launch a new anti-drug advertising campaign emphasising the physical impact of taking drugs like fentanyl and has repeated a threat to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organisations.
"We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you. They ruin your look, they ruin your face, they ruin your skin, they ruin your teeth," Trump said at a conference of the conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday.
Trump gave few concrete details about the ad campaign, which he does not appear to have mentioned before and that he likened to running a political campaign. He said his administration would spend "a lot of money" on the program but that it would be a "very small amount of money, relatively".
The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for further information.
Trump's plan has echoes of the "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign, led by Republican former first lady Nancy Reagan in the 1980s to encourage young Americans to refuse drugs.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 Americans are projected to die from synthetic opioid overdoses this year, most from taking fentanyl or closely related drugs.
The fentanyl crisis featured heavily in Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, even though synthetic opioid deaths more than doubled under his 2017-2021 administration.
Trump also revived a campaign vow to designate Mexico's drug cartels as terrorist groups.
"I will immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organisations," Trump said.
While in office in 2019, Trump shelved such a plan at the request of Mexico's then-President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said he wanted US co-operation on fighting drug gangs, not intervention.
Some US officials had also privately expressed misgivings that the measure could damage relations with Mexico and hinder the Mexican government's fight against drug trafficking.
Trump's official election platform says that when he takes office he will order the Pentagon to use "special forces, cyber warfare, and other covert and overt actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations"
If he sends special forces to mexico and ACTUALLY starts making mexico a better place, Mexicans will give him the respect and support including mine.
ReplyDeleteNo (Real )Mexican is going to want the US military invading Mexico . So no , this won’t ever happen.If it does it will be a bigger problem for the US as Mexico will turn its back on the US ,because it’s not respecting their sovereignty.It could even be the last drop causing Mexico to join BRICS . I mean it doesn’t get any clearer than that . Its like if Canada invaded the US militarly and supposedly wanted to help . Of course no real US patriot would be okay with it .
DeleteHow many years and troops took to take out Osama Bin Laden ?
DeleteMexico will nit join BRICS, there is no money in it.
DeleteEh no
Delete12:48
DeleteNobody's asking anybody "to be okay with it", just please stay the fuck out of the way! 🛫🛩️🗽🧹
Mamasela a trump
Delete12:48
DeleteRelax cayotero, AMLO is gone.
Please no 5 page Manifesto.
@12:48 the "real mexicans" in places like Michoacan, who have to deal with CJNG truck convoys shooting up the town, don't give a shit about your little speech buddy
DeleteSicarios are a dime a dozen, some would love to go back to Mexico and get paid to fight, all it takes is money.
DeleteTrump had 4 years to fix things and he didn't do shit.
DeleteMexico needs invading. Again.
DeleteYou can’t expect a nation of greedy savages to govern themselves!
I support Trump sending special forces to Mexico, but what I don’t like it’s ignorant people that think this will be an easy job. People that think this will take no time to end the violence and cartels.
ReplyDeleteRemember Osama Bin Laden ? Was it easy?
DeleteI always wondered , if drugs and cartels are a big problem for the American government how come they never send help to Mexico ? They send help to countries that are in the other side of the world but not their neighboring countries.
ReplyDeleteThey send help all the time in the form of monetary and actual help training law enforcement in Mexico. Look for Merida Initiative
DeleteWe do help the Mexican goat (aka cartels). We send them guns. 😉
DeleteI always wonder why USA cannot help people to stop using drugs. I always wonder why USA cannot stop drug distribution in USA.
Delete11:54pm. You should read the Merida Initiative because no money was send to Mexico. In fact all the money was used here in USA. Mexico got training and lots of equipment but no cash at all. The money was used to buy equipment and to pay USA private companies for training for Mexicans military personnel.
Delete11:54 You mean train cartel members. If we were not such a junkie ass country these guys would not be so rich. We pay to kill ourselves Mexicans are doing what any American would do. 🤡 🤡
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DeleteWelcome rookie cookie.😁
Mexico has been getting paid yearly, for many years to fight the war on drugs, just like they do with Columbia.
The U.S use to send their old military equipment to Mexico as a form of aid, until AMLO came into office and opted out. Instead he bought new equipment from China, Russia and France, and took the training from the U.S as a show of respect. Like you, his emphasis was more on actual money. When congress passed that almost 100 billion dollar deal in foreign aid to Taiwan, Isreal and Ukraine, he was the first to criticize the U.S for its 200k fentanyl related deaths in one year and the immigration issues the U.S was facing and how out of all that money Latin America got a total of something like 300 million in aid. He argued that there were bigger issues at home or in the U.S's neighborhood that these far away regions far from U.S borders.. his belief is that if you want to keep people from immigrating, you need to provide them jobs. China knows this and is capitalizing by bringing manufacturing to Mexico, reinforcing 1248's comment, that if the U.S doesn't play nice in the sandbox, Mexico will become a part of BRICS. Mexico would not allow for U.S intervention on their soil, and under the Bicentennial agreement which Trump signed off on and Mexico has followed to a Tee, the U.S would have no reason too.
DeleteMexico is not in nato and is backed by Russia.....
DeleteI’ve seen this news on other platforms and I don’t know if people are dumb or just ignorant saying " this will be a piece of cake “ or " they will end the cartels in a week”
ReplyDeleteLike use your brains and actually do some research on cartels, they are not your neighbors gangster.
I’ll give Trump my respect if he actually makes mexico safe again, and that comes from someone that lives in Ensenada.
ReplyDeleteHow many people got killed during Trump presidency in USA ? Is USA really safe ? Canada News said more Canadians got killed in USA than any other country in recent years.
DeleteSure he will! Like Mexico paid for the wall and Chicago New Orleans, and Baltimore are the safe city in the world.
DeleteIf he makes Mexico safe there’s high percentage of Mexicans not wanting to come to the United States, violence is a big factor of why Mexicans go into the country.
ReplyDeleteClearly you don’t know much about Mexico.
DeleteQue carajos ! Ayuden a nuestro Venezuela dejen a mexico , ellos ya están acostumbrados a la guerra.
ReplyDeleteMejor ponganse a peliar y sacar del poder a Maduro . Los Venezolanos le estan dando mala fama a los Latinos . En todos los paises que van quieren vivir de mantenidos del gobierno . Pongansen a trabajar! Vagos .
DeleteArriba El Commandante Trump !
He would have to be stupid to do this. Who do you think will offer to aid Mexico when its sovereignty is attacked? Here's a guess: Russia and China. Why, you ask? Because the U.S. would have lost its ally to the South. Not just that, you would have to assume that all Latin American countries would support Mexico defending its sovereignty at all costs. Think of the economic impact on all of the Americas if this goes down.
ReplyDeleteExactly my thoughts aswell, anyone who thinks this would end well plays too many video games or is just plain stupid. Trump needs to pass laws that are tougher on drug users. It starts in your own cities and towns. An ad campaign will help but tougher laws on drug users and heck, I’m ok with mass executions of drug dealers selling this shit too. Mexico is too much of an economic ally and sending in your military or special forces to an ally is a big mistake.
DeleteI tell you, I broke a finger nail.
DeleteMay be the european union. They just formed a $900 billion trading partnership with 5 south american countries and e. u. and mexico as well as s.a. countries have catholicism in common.
DeleteMexicans4Trump!
ReplyDeleteNo real Mexican is for trump . As a matter of fact, Mexicans are tired of the constant disrespect by Trump and the US politicians at even suggesting a invasion of Mexico , Or the blaming all the US problems on Mexico and illegals when all Mexico has ever done is support the US every way possible and never get recognition for it …If it continues to insult Mexico and not appreciate it for what it actually is ,one of their most important trading partners , and a sovereign nation . I can see things backfiring very quickly for the US as Mexico is a very proud nation .
DeleteMexicanshateTrump!
Delete1233 LOL
DeleteI am sorry to inform you kiddo, the election is done and over with.
DeleteExcept for some remote places in the country sides of Mexico cartel members are not randomly driving caravans of vehicles or armored vehicles and are not hanging out or in groups of hundreds like real terrorists are.
ReplyDeleteYeah cartels cause chaos to some extent but look up "the real Mexico nobody shows you" in YouTube and you'll see plenty videos of places in Mexico where there is zero to no violence by cartels on any given day in planty cities in Mexico. Cities as in populations over one hundred thousand people.
So to label cartels terrorist is another attempt at appealing to racist voters by a red head former POTUS.
If this happens because the US claims to have a right to attack Mexico (yes Mexico for the attacks will be set there), then China will feel free to attack Taiwan and Russia anywhere else they want simply because they also claim the right to attack their interests.
Bunch of idiots talk.
Amen!! Couldn't have said it better
DeleteMy car got dirty, I washed it yesterday and then I found it dusty dirty, those leaf blower people are aholes.
DeleteI say we force Mexico to take Texas back! And Nuffy goes too
ReplyDeleteFunny all these p3nd3j0s for Trump, like if supporting him would get you some white privilege, el nopal lo tienen en la frente. Trump doesn't want brown/colored refugees in America but somehow he thinks labeling cartels as terrorists is a good idea. Maybe that orange clown should focus on the American addicts that make the drug business profitable for the cartel. Or maybe he should also go after big Pharma for creating the opioid crisis, but we all know that will NEVER happen.
ReplyDeletePresident Trump needs to go after all Tren De Arragua ! Deport all the Venezuelan free loaders.
ReplyDeleteI'll be rooting for the cartels
ReplyDeleteAll the US needs to do is what they're doing in parts of Africa right now, the Mexican government will never know they're even in the country.
ReplyDeleteyo lo habia dicho.usa terminara enviando tropas a mexico .con o sin el ok.de mexico..la corrupcion y colusion de las fuerzas de seguridad en mexico es grande ,,,antes de una operacion los corruptos AVISA LOS CRIMINALES NARCOS....VIENE LA POLICIA.................
ReplyDelete106 you sound like the one who is racist with the red dead potus gas lighting comment.
ReplyDeleteAnd Russia has already invaded Ukraine? Over a year ago during the current potus term.
@106 tell us idiots more how Mexico is not in a drug war right now? And how cartels aren’t controlling the cities and murdering mayors and journalists,
ReplyDeleteGet your head out of the sand ! Stop manipulating and telling us idiots what we don’t plainly see!??
Sending special forces
ReplyDeleteInto Mexico will stop the demand for drugs in the US, I love the logic.
From the halls of Moctezuma
ReplyDeleteTo the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country's battles
I'm the air, on land, and sea
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean
We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines 🥺🧑🍳🧑🍳🧑🍳🧑🍳🧑🍳🧑🍳🧑🍳
Ironically, white boy trump will be sending in Spanish speaking operatives to eliminate their moreno cousins! 🤔😸
ReplyDeleteDon't panic just yet..
ReplyDeleteThe Donald has decided to invade panama first, to take back the canal, and that might take a minute!
he wont, he can't, if he did then all of the civi's in mexico can legally get asylum
ReplyDeleteToo many promises, and politicians tend to do that. They say what people want to hear and in the end , they only do the minimum no matter what side they are from.
ReplyDeleteI know Americans are crazy for trump and they will believe anything he says, but let’s me honest he’s only going to do half of the thing he says.
ReplyDeleteKilling or capturing the leaders will only cause more violence. Calderon did a great job proving that.
ReplyDeleteIt’s like boxing, punching a bag anybody can be Mike Tyson but what happens when that bag is another boxer that actually fights back? Not a piece of cake. It’s not going to happen but if it did it would be falling dominos of a shit show. Trump might just be the idiot that launches into WW3 and if Russia and China arrive in Mexico it’s a wrap.
ReplyDeleteIf Trump actually follows through with this promise, high value cartel members better get used to living in caves.
ReplyDeleteYessir!
ReplyDeleteThere ain't gonna be no more eating cats and dogs, nor lighting folks on fire on the NYC subways!
Y'all get to go home to the steaming jungles of third world shitholes, leave now and save face 🐇
About time. Unless Elon Musk declares this will increase the Goverment fexpends way too much, violating the DOGE standards
ReplyDeleteGilbertonas terrorists whaaaaaaaaat!
ReplyDeleteRIP Gilbertona
Mexicans don’t want American special forces in Mexico. They’ll ruin the country like they did in the Middle East and start raping women like they do with every country they invade.
ReplyDeleteWhy invade mexico ?for all of you that don't know last 2 Mexicans presidents were graduated from mexican universities so they know how to bargain for the benefit of Mexico before them the last 4 presidents were Harvard graduates so they bargained for their families future not mexicos future so the United States need to have a Harvard or Yale graduate in the mexican presidency is good for the american people if we all are salaried on dollars is better for all of us so whatever works I'm down for it. Now you all know why
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