President Donald Trump has declared success in striking suspected drug boats, and indicated that his administration would now target drug trafficking over land.

Addressing the Navy on Sunday in a flashy show for its 250th anniversary, Trump said, "In recent weeks, the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water.

"And you know, there are no boats in the water anymore. You can't find any. We're having a hard time finding them."

"We're so good at it, that there are no boats," he continued. "We're stopping drugs at a level that nobody's ever seen before."

The toll on Americans

The president noted that 300,000 people in America were lost to drugs last year and said that each boat the Navy destroyed was responsible for "25,000 deaths."

"Every one of us knows families that have been destroyed, because the son, daughter -- Even mothers and fathers are destroyed by the fentanyl pouring in, and drugs pouring in," he said.

"Well, they're not coming in by sea anymore," he continued. "So now we'll have to start looking about the land, because they'll be forced to go by land."

He laughed before saying, "That's not gonna work out well for 'em either."

War Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed to continue targeting ships “until the attacks on the American people are over.”

Land targets

Trump told the Washington Examiner last week that the administration would “look very seriously at cartels coming by land.”

So far, all of the strikes have been on boats coming from Venezuela, which has the Cartel de los Soles and Tren de Aragua.

It wasn't immediately clear how he would target cartels on land, but in a memorandum last week he declared that the United States is in a “non-international armed conflict” with the cartels.

Trump has said he wants to enter Mexico to fight the cartels across the border, but Mexico has so far resisted that idea.

Unlike Venezuela, which can't really fight back against the U.S., Mexico has much more firepower and access to American soil. Let's see if Trump can get cooperation from our southern neighbor to do what needs to be done.