U.S. President Donald Trump answered reporters at the White House when asked whether he would ask Congress to declare war on Venezuela in order to continue targeting ships that, his administration says, are bringing drugs into the United States, NBC News reports.

“Well, I don’t think we’ll necessarily ask to declare war,” the President told reporters. “I think we’ll just kill the people who are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them. I think they will be dead.”