Fox News host Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery on August 1, 2025

One Fox News host who is usually on President Donald Trump's side is now speaking out against his controversial new approach to drug trafficking.

Trump has lately been launching missile attacks on boats coming from Venezuela that the administration says are being piloted by drug trafficking gangs trying to smuggle fentanyl into the United States, though the White House has so far not provided any evidence to back up its claims. The bombings have been sharply criticized by both military experts and even Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (also known mononymously as "Kennedy") took a different tack than her co-panelists on a recent episode of "The Five." While the panel was largely supportive of Trump's bombings of the boats, Kennedy argued that the president was walking a thin line between fighting drug cartels and blowing up boats full of people who pose no threat to the United States.

"I don’t like it," Kennedy said. "Because all it takes is one fishing boat with a broken radio or people who don’t speak English and you’re killing innocent civilians, and I do not like that."

The Fox News host said that rather than taking a military approach, the Trump administration should instead address drug addiction within the United States. She further noted that the "War on Drugs" of the 1980s and 1990s "failed the first time" around because previous presidents didn't tackle root causes.

"Things can go very badly here. We have not properly addressed demand in this country. That has not gone away," she said. "That is one of the reasons that the cartels proliferated during and after the war on drugs."

"We do have to address why do people — especially kids in this country — want to put things in their body they know can kill them?" She added. "It is terrifying. And instead, we’re doing it wrong."

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