Can they really be this bad? Yes, yes they can…
The Washington Post is drawing scorn from both the internet and the White House for what critics are calling “pathetic” reporting on a so-called “mysterious” drop in fentanyl crossings at the U.S. border.
There’s nothing mysterious about it, say critics, when cartels face real consequences. This is what real leadership in the White House looks like.
Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid smuggled in by cartels, was tied to 48,422 American deaths in 2024, according to the CDC—a staggering toll that has turned border security into a life-or-death issue.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the U.S. law enforcement seizures of fentanyl, which the group explains is a “key indicator of broader total smuggling at and between the southern border’s ports of entry,” have dropped 50% since the November election. CIS states that this significant decline indicates a “greater decline in total fentanyl smuggling.”
And what changed in November? Joe out, Don in.
The Washington Post notes a nearly 30% drop in U.S. fentanyl seizures at the southern border compared to the same period in 2024—but curiously calls the decline “something of a mystery.”
Really?!
Critics aren’t buying the mystique. When enforcement tightens and traffickers face consequences, supply chains crack. What’s so mysterious about cause and effect?
“After years of confiscating rising amounts of fentanyl, the opioid that has fueled the most lethal drug epidemic in American history, U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling reality at the Mexican border. Fentanyl seizures are plummeting,” wrote the Post.
Wapo continued, positing that “public health authorities are concerned that the Trump administration’s budget cuts could hurt programs that have promoted overdose antidotes and addiction treatment.”
Conservatives blasted the article on social media.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., commented on X, “The Washington Post is reporting a ‘mysterious drop’ in fentanyl seizures at the southern border. Mystery solved! The Trump effect is working.”
Charlie Kirk, a popular conservative influencer, also commented, saying: “Four months into the Trump administration, The Washington Post is marveling at the ‘mysterious’ drop in fentanyl seizures on the Mexican border … Is the Post simply lying, or are their reporters as dumb as the people they’re writing propaganda for?”
The Department of Homeland Security’s official X account also replied, commenting: “It’s no mystery. On day one, [President] Trump closed our borders to drug traffickers.”
DHS said that “from March 2024 to March 2025 fentanyl traffic at the southern border fell by 54%.”
“The world has heard the message loud and clear,” said DHS.
Several top White House officials weighed in. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the Post as “pathetic,” while Communications Director Steven Cheung added, “They can’t stand that President Trump’s strong border policies have led to a DECREASE in fentanyl coming into the U.S.”
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