President Donald Trump is once again making headlines for suggesting destructive policies, only this time it’s taking the three strikes policy to another level.


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According to Axios.com, “According to five sources who’ve spoken with Trump about the subject, he often leaps into a passionate speech about how drug dealers are as bad as serial killers and should all get the death penalty.” Trump is allegedly inspired by how Singapore, China, and the Philippines punish drug dealers, which is often by death.

Trump “often jokes about killing drug dealers,” a senior administration official said in the interview. “He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them,'” the official said.

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has made worldwide headlines after announcing that he executed 10,000 drug dealers and users in the past two years — on the street.

While Trump admits that such a law would be impossible to pass, the head of state may support legislation that requires a five-year minimum sentence for dealers selling as little as two grams of fentanyl. In addition to the harsh penalty, Trump allegedly also believes “the government has got to teach children that they’ll die if they take drugs” with subpar drug education and declares that lenient and softer sentences for users will “never work.”

As if his ideology on drug reform isn’t enough, 45 gave a speech during his meeting with Governors backing up his suggestion that teachers should be armed to decrease the soaring rate of school shootings, declaring that had he been there he would have handled it differently than the trained officers on the scene.

On Monday (Feb 27), Donald Trump said that he would have charged into a Florida school during the shooting there earlier this month even if he were unarmed.

“I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump told governors meeting at the White House to discuss school safety.

Trump slammed the armed school guard who remained outside the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland as “frankly disgusting.” The president also criticized several deputies who failed to immediately enter the school, telling the governors that the law enforcement officers “weren’t exactly Medal of Honor winners.”

Trump defended his proposal that some teachers in schools be armed and trained in the use of firearms, saying he only wanted “highly trained people that have a natural talent [for shooting], like hitting a baseball, or hitting a golf ball, or putting” to handle weapons in schools. The president compared the skill involved in handling firearms to that required for the game of golf, where “some people always make the 4-footer, and some people under pressure can’t even take their club back.”

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, was critical of the president’s proposal, telling him Monday that “we need a little less Tweeting, a little more listening” on school shooting solutions.

“I have listened to the biology teachers, and they don’t want to do that at any percentage,” Inslee said. “I’ve listened to the first-grade teachers who don’t want to be pistol-packing first-grade teachers. I’ve listened to the law enforcement officials who say they don’t want to train teachers as law enforcement agencies, which takes about six months. Now this is a circumstance where I think we need to listen — that educators should educate, and they should not be foisted upon this responsibility of packing heat in first-grade classes,” he said. “I just suggest that we need a little less tweeting here, and a little more listening.”