President Donald Trump has already spent several weeks threatening a possible regime change war in Venezuela. Now, the president is getting belligerent about a different South American country.
The president, in a Truth Social post Sunday, accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro of being an “illegal drug dealer,” announced that he was cutting off aid to the country and while doing so, he spelled the name of the country wrong multiple times.
“President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America,” the president said in the Truth Social post.
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“AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Donald J. Trump.”
As pointed out by The Daily Beast, Trump “appeared to realize the spelling errors and deleted the post. He followed up with a nearly identical, more grammatically polished rant, attacking the ‘low-rated, unpopular leader’ Petro for allowing drugs to become “the biggest business in Colombia.”
The Colombian leader struck back in an X post of his own, translated by the Beast as “The main enemy that drug trafficking had in Colombia in the 21st century was the one who exposed its ties to Colombia’s political power. That was me,” Petro wrote. “I recommend that Trump take a good look at Colombia and determine which side the narcos are on, and which side the democrats are on.”
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