Wacky Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro Issues an Incredibly Bizarre Response to President Trump While Threatening Retaliation

US President Trump and Colombian counterpart Petro exchanged sharp words on social media
THE GATEWAY PUNDIT | Published January 27, 2025

Leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro has issued an official response to President Trump’s announcement of consequences for his country after he initially blocked flights carrying criminal aliens in the state capital of Bogata’ and it is a quite a doozy.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Petro, a former Marxist guerrilla and a vocal critic of the U.S. foreign policy, embarrassingly folded to President Donald Trump’s strategic pressure on tariffs and sanctions, making a drastic U-turn by sending the presidential plane to collect Colombian deportees previously barred from landing.

This move came after Petro’s initial bravado in blocking two U.S. military deportation flights, a decision that sparked an angry response from Trump.

But Petro appears to have finished cooperating for now and is puffing out his chest again. Late Sunday afternoon, Petro issued a bizarre statement to Trump that must be seen to be believed.

Petro first scoffed at the sanctions, remarking that he finds America “a bit boring” before going on a bizarre screed parsing a variety of far-left American political figures, including Noam Chomsky. But this was just the beginning of his nonsensical screed.

The Colombian leader went on to blast U.S. oil, call Trump a racist, and portray himself as a martyr all while using vernacular so wacky one can only wonder what is going on inside his head.

I don’t like your oil, Trump, you’re going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I’m not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that’s me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you.

I don’t want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t accompany me, I’ll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn’t understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

After more race-baiting, he continued to portray himself as a Hispanic William Wallace while spouting more weird and wacky garbage.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

 

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today’s Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

Petro then closed by threatening to impose tariffs on America, which would basically guarantee economic suicide for his country.

“Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world,” Petro wrote.

“I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States,” he concluded. “And I do the same.”

One could say Petro should have just skipped his entire screed until the very end because no one really knows what he was talking about.

 

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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com

RELATED: Colombia to Take Deported Migrants After Trump Tariff Showdown

NEWSMAX | Published January 27, 2025

The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.S. partner.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a late Sunday statement that the “Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay.”

Leavitt said the tariff orders — which would have put in place 25% tariffs on all Colombian incoming goods, and then raised to 50% in one week — will be “held in reserve, and not signed.” But Leavitt said Trump would maintain visa restrictions on Colombian officials and enhanced customs inspections of goods from the country “until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.”

 

There was no immediate reaction from the Colombian government.

Earlier in the day, Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in a series of social media posts, defended their views on migration, with the latter accusing Trump of not treating immigrants with dignity during deportation and announcing a retaliatory 25% increase in Colombian tariffs on U.S. goods.

Trump had ordered visa restrictions; 25% tariffs on all Colombian incoming goods, which would be raised to 50% in one week; and other retaliatory measures sparked by Petro’s decision to reject two Colombia-bound U.S. military aircraft carrying migrants.

Trump said the measures were necessary because Petro’s decision “jeopardized” national security in the U.S.

“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States.”

Later Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he was authorizing the visa restrictions on Colombian government officials and their families “who were responsible for the interference of U.S. repatriation flight operations.” They were being imposed on top of the State Department’s move to suspend the processing of visas at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia’s capital, Bogota.

The restrictions will continue, Rubio said, “until Colombia meets its obligations to accept the return of its own citizens.”

 

Earlier in the day, Petro said his government would not accept flights carrying migrants deported from the U.S. until the Trump administration creates a protocol that treats them with “dignity.” Petro made the announcement in two X posts, one of which included a news video of migrants reportedly deported to Brazil walking on a tarmac with restraints on their hands and feet.

“A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” Petro said. “That is why I returned the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants … In civilian planes, without being treated like criminals, we will receive our fellow citizens.”

After Trump’s announcement, Petro said in a post on X that he had ordered the “foreign trade minister to raise import tariffs from the U.S. by 25%.”

Colombia has traditionally been the U.S.’s top ally in Latin America. But their relationship has strained since Petro, a former guerrilla, became Colombia’s first leftist president in 2022 and sought distance from the U.S.

Colombia accepted 475 deportation flights from the U.S. from 2020 to 2024, fifth behind Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and El Salvador, according to Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data. It accepted 124 deportation flights in 2024.

Colombia is also among the countries that last year began accepting U.S.-funded deportation flights from Panama.

The U.S. government didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press regarding aircraft and protocols used in deportations to Colombia.

 

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SOURCE: www.newsmax.com

 

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