President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction during an award ceremony honoring 13 military service members with the Mexican Border Defense Medal.
With new medals honoring military border security efforts as a backdrop, Trump doubled down on his campaign to secure the southern border and stop the flow of fentanyl into the country.
The president said there is no doubt that U.S. adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States, in part because they want to kill Americans.
“They’re trying to drug-out our country,” Trump said of those responsible for the fentanyl crisis….