President Donald Trump defended the attack on a Venezuelan boat by claiming that 300 million Americans died from drugs last year. This isn’t the first time Trump has used numbers of his own choosing, but this time he’s off by 300 million.
If we were to believe his claims, nearly all Americans would already be dead, leaving only about 40 million alive. The U.S. military struck a Venezuelan boat that might have been bringing in drugs to the U.S., killing 11. This resulted in criticism in the US as well as Venezuela.
Sen. Rand Paul said, ‘I think probably that we had the facts correct, we got bad people here, but it isn’t our policy just to blow people up.’ Meanwhile, Trump was asked about the illegal attack, and he replied, ‘What’s illegal are the drugs that were on the boat, and the drugs that are being sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs, that’s what’s illegal.’
Fine. Let’s do Trump math: The U.S. has ~342M people. If 300M died, and he still claims ~77M voted for him, he owes us an explanation of where the extra ~35M votes magically appeared from. Or can we all just admit that he’s the dumbest president ever? https://t.co/pHAO1eHgA2
— Karly Kingsley (@karlykingsley) September 14, 2025
Trump is known to have presented exaggerated numbers out of thin air to defend his claims and prove a point, but this time, it defeats all logic. The president is unaware of the total US population to make these claims.
Earlier he had claimed to have prescription prices cut by 15,00%. If that were the case, they would be sold at negative prices. Since the current population is 340 million, his claims would imply that most are dead. Netizens are reacting to these numbers with math lessons and hilarious takes.
🚨BREAKING: Trump just had a stunning cognitive slip. Asked about Venezuela, he said: “What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs.”
America has 340 million people total. Is it time for the 25th Amendment? pic.twitter.com/5VEZW3EEZK
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 15, 2025
One user posted, ‘Wow, holy s— so only like 40 million people alive in America now?’ The second user added up to the exaggerated numbers and joked, ‘He’s wrong. It’s a billion gazillion people.’
Another one added, ‘So pretty much all of the US? Wow. Are we zombies? Or did we all die, and this is really hell?’ The third one chimed in, saying, ‘The great thing about Labor Day weekend, when we didn’t hear from him, is we had a pleasant respite from hearing him say idiotic things.’
So pretty much all of the US? Wow. Are we zombies? Or did we all die, and this is really hell?
— The Great Gig in the Sky (@thegreatgig8) September 15, 2025
Trump had been absent from the public eye for a while, leading some to speculate that he had died. Moreover, there were speculations about his declining health. Now he’s back to making statements that quite literally don’t add up.
