Washington Post’s “pathetic” reports on the decline of fentanyl made fun of the White House
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The Washington Post is mocking online and in the White House for a “pathetic” relationship on what the liberal media calls a “mysterious” drop in fentanyl crossing the border.
Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is often tampered with in the United States through the southern and northern borders by cartels and other criminal elements. In 2024, fentanyl was linked to the death of 48,422 people in the United States, according to the CDC.
During his campaign, President Donald Trump promised to wage a war against fentanyl traffickers thanks to increased border security and repressing illegal immigration. Since his entry into office, Trump has deployed American troops on the southern border, targeted cartels and transnational criminal groups as “foreign terrorist organizations” and has struck cartel leaders with sanctions.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the American convulsions applying the fentanyl law, which, according to the group, is a “key indicator of a broader total traffic to and between the entrance ports of the southern border”, have dropped by 50% from the November elections. The CIS declares that this significant decrease indicates a “greater drop in fentanyl total traffic”.
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A liberal media The Washington Post is mocking online and in the White House for a “pathetic” relationship on what the point of sale calls a “mysterious” drop in fentanyl crossing the border. (Us Customs and Border Protection and Fox News)
The Washington Post reports this drop, declaring that American convulsions on the southern border are down almost 30% compared to the same period in 2024. The exit, however, indicates that gout “represents something of a mystery.”
“After years of confiscation of fentanyl amounts, the opioids that fueled the most deadly drug epidemic in American history, American officials are faced with a new confusing reality on the Mexican border. Fentanyl convulsions fall,” wrote The Post.
Among the possible reasons listed by the point of sale are the cartels which find other ways to pass the drug in the United States, internal conflicts of the cartel, the shortages of ingredients and a possible drop in demand.
Although disconcerted by the reason for the decline, the Washington Post applied that “public health authorities feared that the Trump administration’s budget cuts would harm the programs that have favored overdose antidotes and the treatment of drug addiction”.
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The South American border near El Paso, Texas. (Fox News Photo / Joshua Comins)
The article was largely mocked by the online conservatives.
The representative Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., Commented X: “The Washington Post reports a” mysterious decrease “of fentanyl attacks on the southern border. Mystery resolved! The Trump effect works.”
Charlie Kirk, a popular conservative influencer, also said: “Four months in the Trump administration, the Washington Post marvels from the mysterious’ decrease” in fentanyl crises on the Mexican border … Is the post simply lied, or are they as stupid journalists as people for whom they write propaganda? “
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Official account X of the Ministry of Internal Security also replied, commenting: “It is not a mystery. On the first day, [President] Trump closed our borders to drug traffickers. “”
DHS said that “from March 2024 to March 2025, fentanyl traffic at the southern border dropped by 54%”.
“The world heard the message loud and clear,” said DHS.
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Several spokespersons of the White House have also weighed. The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt simply described the post as “pathetic”, and the director of communications of the White House, Steven Cheung, said: “They cannot bear that the border policies of President Trump led to a reduction in fentanyl in the United States”
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Abigail Jackson, another spokesperson for the White House, told Fox News Digital that “the drop in fentanyl attacks on the border is only a mystery for journalists from the Washington Post suffering from Trump-Drangement syndrome”.
“In March, the circulation of fentanyl on the southern border fell by more than half compared to the same time last year – while the open border of Joe Biden still terrorized America,” said Jackson. “Everyone knows the simple truth: President Trump has closed our border to illegal drug traffickers and the Americans are safer because of this.”
The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital Request for Comments.
