On Jan. 18, Eric Trump took to X with what he thought was a mic-drop, red-meat post celebrating his father’s violent Caribbean boat strikes. He linked to a chart, tagged Donald Trump, and claimed, “No statistic has ever made me more proud!” But that statistic, about fentanyl deaths, was never about Trump.
“Well done @realDonaldTrump!! Keep blowing the shit out of those boats!” Eric Trump wrote with patriotic vigor in his post. He linked it to a chart circulated by an X account called EndWokeness, claiming that U.S. fentanyl deaths were falling. He meant to imply that Trump’s boat strikes on suspected drug smuggling vessels were the cause of the drop.
