Before being medically retired, I served almost a decade as a member of a unit that falls under the U.S. Army Special Operations Command & at times the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command. I know the risks involved high risk military operations; I have never been part of an op where the goal didn’t outweigh the risk. Yesterday’s actions were not unprecedented.
Not an unprecedented action by a U.S. President ma’am:
United States removal or neutralization of foreign heads of state through strategic operations:
Hawaii
Year: 1893
Head of State Removed: Queen Liliʻuokalani
President Grover Cleveland (D)
Panama
Year: 1903
Head of State Removed: Colombian sovereignty over Panama
President Theodore Roosevelt (R)
Nicaragua
Year: 1912–1917
Head of State Removed: Multiple governments
President Woodrow Wilson (D)
Haiti
Year: 1915
Head of State Removed: President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam
President Woodrow Wilson (D)
Dominican Republic
Year: 1916
Head of State Removed: Government dissolved under occupation
President Woodrow Wilson (D)
Iran
Year: 1953
Head of State Removed: Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
Guatemala
Year: 1954
Head of State Removed: President Jacobo Árbenz
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
Congo
Year: 1961
Head of State Removed: Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba
President John F. Kennedy (D)
South Vietnam
Year: 1963
Head of State Removed: President Ngô Đình Diệm
President John F. Kennedy (D)
Dominican Republic
Year: 1965
Head of State Removed: Constitutional government
President Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
Chile
Year: 1973
Head of State Removed: President Salvador Allende
President Richard Nixon (R)
Argentina
Year: 1976
Head of State Removed: President Isabel Perón
President Gerald Ford (R)
Afghanistan
Year: 1979
Head of State Removed: Soviet backed government destabilized
President Jimmy Carter (D)
Grenada
Year: 1983
Head of State Removed: Revolutionary Military Council
President Ronald Reagan (R)
Nicaragua
Year: 1981–1989
Head of State Targeted: Sandinista government (not fully removed)
President Ronald Reagan (R)
Afghanistan
Year: 1981–1989
Head of State Removed: Soviet backed government collapse accelerated
President Ronald Reagan (R)
Panama
Year: 1989
Head of State Removed: Manuel Noriega
President George H. W. Bush (R)
Serbia
Year: 2000
Head of State Removed: Slobodan Milošević
President Bill Clinton (D)
Libya
Year: 2011
Head of State Removed: Muammar Gaddafi
President Barack Obama (D)
Venezuela
Year: 2026
Head of State Removed: Nicolás Maduro Moros
President Donald Trump
Final party count
Republican Presidents: 10
Democratic Presidents: 10
Balanced. Bipartisan. Factual.
Liberal left cheered and celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, but cry that an illegitimate narco-terrorist dictator has been captured. That’s all you really need to know about the democratic left.