President Donald Trump has taken action classifying fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” as his administration escalates efforts to combat the flow of illicit drugs into the United States.
Trump signed an executive order on Monday, Dec. 15, to formalize the designation, which comes as the president has signed off on unprecedented airstrikes on alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean from Venezuela.
“No bomb does what this is doing,” Trump said in remarks from the Oval Office, pointing to overdose deaths caused by fentanyl in the United States. “So we’re formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.”
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