Speaking in the Department of Justice of Washington, DC, Friday, President Donald Trump He comforted a mother whose son died of fentanyl poisoning and said: “He is looking at you” and “she is very proud of mom.”
Trump highlighted the deep impact of fentanyl poisoning on American citizens, saying during his speech that “more Americans died of Fentanyl last year who died in the Korean War, or the Iraq war or the Afghanistan war. They all combined.”
He blamed President Joe Biden’s Open border policies, posters and countries such as Mexico, Canada and China to allow the fentanyl problem to generalize.
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President Donald Trump listens to as Anne Fundner, whose son died after taking pills with fentanyl, during a press conference in the Department of Justice, on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Fox news/pool)
When doing one side for a few moments, the president called the stage Anne Fundner, an anti -drug activist and mother who lost her son, Weston, for the poisoning of fentanyl, to talk about how the mortal drug is hurting the Americans.
While on stage, Fundner thanked Trump and his administration for closing the border, attacking the posters and groups of migrant crimes such as “Foreign terrorist organizations” and to institute tariffs to countries target where the fentanyl flows.
“The posters were allowed to operate on American soil and took hundreds of thousands of American lives. And so, we knew there was only one person who could save us from devastation in our American soil. And that was President Trump,” Fundner said. “I feel that I can talk throughout the community of fentanyl fighting when I say thanks to President Trump and thanks to Pam Bondi And everyone here is fighting this fight. God bless you. God bless you, President Trump. “
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Department of Justice, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington, DC (Fox news/pool)
At a sincere moment caught in the microphone, Trump leaned down to hug Fundner and said: “He is looking at you. He is very proud of mom.
“I just told Anne: ‘Weston is in the sky looking at his mother, and is so proud of you that he is very proud of you,” Trump said later.
As for the crowd, Trump also went to a group of parents who also lost children to Fentanyl, saying: “We want to recognize and also their daughters, their sons, they look at you and love you like crazy.”
The president said that since he assumed the position of the DEA and FBI has seized 1 million mortal doses of fentanyl.
“And that’s just the beginning,” he said. “In my direction and working with PAM and everyone else, we have launched a total war against fentanyl traffickers. And it is a war that we are going to win. We will win this war.”
Also hinted that the death penalty For certain drug trafficking crimes of the poster they are being considered, but recognizes that “the United States may not be ready for it.”
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A border patrol agent walks between a gap along the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Yuma, Arizona, on June 1, 2022. The Supervision and Responsibility Committee of the House of Representatives is asking to speak with the head of that sector of the border patrol. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP through Getty Images)
“Wherever you have the death penalty, you don’t have drugs,” he said. “But I don’t know if this country is ready for it. Then, I tell people and it’s always an option.”
Trump’s White House has previously said to Fox News Digital that would be “ruthlessly aggressive” In responding to the threats of the poster to American life.
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“This department will not rest until we have finished the fentanyl epidemic in the United States once and for all,” Trump said Friday.
In addition to taking measures against the posters, Trump said his administration would soon launch a series of ads to emphasize the negative effects of drug use in an attempt to reduce generalized deaths in the United States.
