President Trump Deploys F-35 Fighter Jets to Puerto Rico to Target Drug Cartels

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Things are escalating in the Caribbean…

Ten F-35 fighter jets have just been deployed to Puerto Rico as part of President Trump and the Department of War’s fight against drug cartels.

This comes after the U.S. struck a Venezuelan drug ship earlier this week.

Take a look:

BREAKING: The U.S. military has deployed 10 advanced F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to target Nicolás Maduro’s cartel operations, following Venezuela’s move to fly two armed F-16s over a U.S. warship yesterday. pic.twitter.com/konH7FiQ29

— The General (@GeneralMCNews) September 5, 2025

FOX NEWS ALERT: The Pentagon has reportedly deployed 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to conduct “anti-cartel operations” after two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets buzzed a U.S. Navy destroyer Thursday in the Caribbean in a “highly provocative move.”

Department of… pic.twitter.com/y2kzYTjaXN

— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) September 5, 2025

FOX NEWS ALERT: The Pentagon has reportedly deployed 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to conduct “anti-cartel operations” after two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets buzzed a U.S. Navy destroyer Thursday in the Caribbean in a “highly provocative move.”

Department of Defense: “The cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue any further effort to obstruct, deter or interfere with counter-narcotics and counter-terror operations carried out by the U.S. military.”

Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro has accused President Trump of plotting “regime change” in the region, which President Trump shot down on Friday.

However, the ‘hot’ war on drugs appears to be just beginning — and, it’s about time!

Reuters reported:

The United States is not talking about regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Friday, as the United States ordered an additional 10 stealth fighter jets to a military buildup in the Caribbean.

“We’re not talking about that, but we are talking about the fact that you had an election which was a very strange election, to put it mildly,” Trump said, referring to the contested 2024 election the Venezuelan government says President Nicolas Maduro won.

Trump had been asked by reporters about a claim Maduro has made this week that the United States was seeking “regime change through military threat.”

“The government of the United States should abandon its plan of violent regime change in Venezuela and in all of Latin America and respect sovereignty, the right to peace, to independence,” Maduro said on state television.

“I respect Trump. None of the differences we’ve had can lead to a military conflict,” Maduro added. “Venezuela has always been willing to converse, to dialogue.”

Trump demonstrated his new approach to fighting the drug war with a U.S. military strike on Tuesday that killed 11 people and sank a boat from Venezuela which Trump said was transporting illegal narcotics.

The U.S. president is weighing options for further strikes, including potentially attacking suspected drug cartel targets inside Venezuela, CNN reported on Friday, citing multiple sources briefed on the administration’s plans. Such a strike would mark a major escalation.

Watch the moment the fighter jets landed in Puerto Rico right here:

BREAKING: Ten U.S. F-35 jets have landed in Puerto Rico, just 550 miles from Venezuela. At the same time, the USS Iwo Jima, armed and ready to launch F-35Bs, now waits close by.

Venezuela holds only 13 F-16s and 21 aging Su-30MK2s. Against American stealth power, its… pic.twitter.com/P1ZPxKSUcR

— Defense Intelligence (@DI313_) September 6, 2025

BREAKING: Ten U.S. F-35 jets have landed in Puerto Rico, just 550 miles from Venezuela. At the same time, the USS Iwo Jima, armed and ready to launch F-35Bs, now waits close by.

Venezuela holds only 13 F-16s and 21 aging Su-30MK2s. Against American stealth power, its entire air force could be destroyed on the ground before ever taking flight.

The Caribbean skies are on the edge of a dangerous escalation!

The deployment of fighter jets to the area also comes after two Venezuelan F-16s flew over one of the missile destroyers President Trump sent to the Caribbean last month.

CBS News has more:

In late August, the U.S. assigned three Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson — to deploy to the waters off Venezuela as part of President Trump’s effort to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels.

On Thursday, two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over the Dunham, according to multiple Defense Department officials who described the action as a “show of force.”

CBS News was unable to determine what actions the Dunham took, if any, in response to the flyover.

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