Fact-check · Sep 22, 2026 · Donald Trump
“Destroying 97% of the drugs coming into the ocean and sea”
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What the record shows
CBP air/marine seizures dropped 79% from Aug 2025–Jan 2026 (from cherry-picked July 2025 baseline); Coast Guard seizures increased 200% in FY2025. No official metric measures 'percentage of drugs destroyed at sea' as share of total inflow.
Sources
- Is President Donald Trump right that drugs entering the US by sea have dropped by 97%? – Politifact
- U.S. Coast Guard’s Operation Pacific Viper Hits Milestone of 225,000 Pounds of Cocaine Seized | Homeland Security
- PolitiFact FL: Is Trump right that drugs entering the US by sea have dropped by 97%? | WLRN
- Coast Guard drug busts fell as service shifted focus to Caribbean migrants, GAO finds | Stars and Stripes
- Coast Guard Seizes 200,000 Pounds of Cocaine in Six Months in Pacific Ocean
- Coast Guard Seized $4 Billion Worth of Narcotics in Record-Setting Year
From: President Trump Delivers Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly
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