President Donald Trump made his latest move in trying to enforce his paramilitary mass deportation agenda by coupling it with his growing “war on drugs,” which is increasingly starting to resemble President George W. Bush’s much-criticized “war on terror.” In Trump’s latest tumble toward that path, he has declared illicit fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction,” a move that has puzzled most experts.
Trump was at the White House honoring U.S. service members with medals for their “central role” in protecting the United States border. He then pivoted to his drug war, saying, “Today I’m taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country with this historic executive order. No bomb does what this is doing.”
