NEW: JD Vance Torches Notorious Anti-Trump Troll Over Venezuela Strike

Vice President JD Vance had choice words for Brian Krassenstein — a notorious anti-Trump social media troll — after he criticized the administration’s decision to launch a drone strike targeting a drug trafficking boat belonging to Venezuela’s ultraviolet Tren de Aragua street gang earlier this week.

On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump announced that military strikes had been authorized on a drug trafficking boat with links to the Venezuelan regime. While speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president bluntly stated that the military “literally shot out a boat—a drug-carrying boat.”

According to the White House, the boat was loaded with narcotics and armed drug traffickers.

The strike was not an isolated maneuver but part of a larger U.S. buildup in the region. Over recent months, Washington has deployed a formidable array of assets to waters off Venezuela, including Aegis-equipped destroyers, an amphibious squadron, and a nuclear submarine. The force is supported by P-8 surveillance aircraft, helicopters, and Tomahawk-capable platforms, along with roughly 4,000 to 4,500 personnel.

In the days following the strikes, some elected Democrats and left-wing political pundits have claimed the strike was illegal and unnecessary. Krassenstein was among them, as he took the time to respond to one of the vice president’s X posts on Saturday morning.

“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vance wrote, to which Krassenstein replied, “Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.”

The vice president did not mince words with his reply, saying, “I don’t give a shit what you call it” in a viral exchange.

Krassenstein is far from the only left-wing voice to express concern over the rights of foreign drug traffickers and gang members in the aftermath of the strike.

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, claimed that he had not been briefed on the strike and called the development “disturbing.” This was disputed by Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), who also sits on the committee and said he was indeed briefed on the strikes.

Not all Democrats have criticized the move, including Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who expressed support for the Trump Administration’s policy. “Fully support confronting the scourge of cartel drug trafficking to our nation,” he said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that strikes against Venezuelan drug-trafficking organizations — which have been designated as terrorist organizations — will continue.

“The president of the United States has determined that narco-terrorist organizations pose a threat to the national security of the United States. I don’t need to explain to you why,” the secretary added.

“These are not stockbrokers. These are not real estate agents who, on the side, deal a few drugs. These are organized, corporate, structured organizations who specialize in the trafficking of deadly drugs into the United States of America,” Rubio said. “They pose an immediate threat to the United States. Period.”

He further argued that the previous policy of search and seizure was ineffective.

“Because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they’re going to lose 2% of their cargo — they bake it into their economics,” he said. “What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them.”