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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Fentanyl Designated a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Government, Education

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Fentanyl has now been designated as a weapon of mass destruction. The shift in designation could have sweeping impacts on law enforcement, international actions, and other policies related to how the drug is treated, and which actions can be taken to stop traffickers and dealers.

We’ll discuss this topic and others, in this episode of Crossroads.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Big, big news. Fentanyl has now been designated as a weapon of mass destruction by the White House.

0:07.7

The shift in designation could have sweeping impacts pretty much across the board.

0:12.3

Meanwhile, several major television companies, and we're talking household names here, are being sued in Texas for allegedly spying on you the users with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

0:25.6

And on another topic, Mexico has for a long time been dumping raw sewage into American waters,

0:33.6

and has now agreed to start taking steps to stop this.

0:36.6

We'll be talking about these topics and a lot more today.

0:39.3

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

0:48.3

Fentanyl is now an official designated WMD.

0:55.0

It's a weapon of mass destruction.

0:58.0

And the shift in designation could actually have pretty sweeping impacts on law enforcement, international actions, and other policies related to how the drug is treated.

1:08.0

Like this is serious. It basically puts fentanyl on like nuclear

1:12.3

weapon status, meaning Mexico now has weapons of mass destruction. Venezuela now has weapons of

1:19.5

mass destruction. And the big question is what will America do about these weapons of mass

1:24.4

destruction, which they are actively trying to send into the United States

1:28.2

to kill American citizens.

1:29.5

This is a big deal. Basically, they can take very strong actions now to stop traffickers and dealers.

1:38.5

This is President Donald Trump explaining it.

1:40.7

That's why today I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country.

1:48.0

With this historic executive order I will sign today, we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is.

1:58.0

No bomb does what this is doing.

2:01.6

200 to 300,000 people die every year that we know of.

2:07.6

So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

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