President Donald Trump lambasted Colombian President Gustavo Petro as a “fresh mouth” unpopular politician who is also an “illegal drug leader” in a scathing tirade on Truth Social on Sunday morning.
The president also said the U.S. would be ending all subsidies to the Latin American nation, effective immediately, before threatening Petro he “better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Trump was referring to fields in Colombia where heroin and cocaine stem from. Those fields, he said, produce a “massive” amount of drugs that ultimately cause “death, destruction, and havoc” in the U.S.
“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,” Trump posted. “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.”
He continued in all caps: “AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER ME MADE TO COLOMBIA.”
Trump added Petro is a “low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth towards America.”
The acid-tongued — or acid-fingered, in this case — post from President Trump came the morning after Petro accused the U.S. of murdering Colombian fisherman last week.
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Trump said that is nonsense and that two men killed were “narcoterrorists” who were traveling in a “drug carrying submarine.” The president said it was a “great honor” to strike the submarine, while also sharing footage of the strike on Truth Social on Saturday. Two other men traveling aboard the sub were picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard and treated for injuries, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Petro, in an X post a few hours after Trump’s post on Sunday, said his country has “never been rude” to the US, but that Trump was being “rude and ignorant toward Colombia.” He also said he was a socialist — not a merchant or, even worse, a drug trafficker.
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