Thousands of Colombians protest leftist leader Petro who jacked with Trump over deportation flights; Petro spews crazed rants on X
Is there some kind of implosion going on in Colombia?
Hours after President Trump announced sanctions on the onetime ally for refusing to accept two planeloads of repatriated illegals after agreeing to take them, Colombia's far-left president, Gustavo Petro, now has massive street protests from the locals angry over the foolish fight he picked.
🚨BREAKING —> Following today’s pathetic decision by socialist President @petrogustavo, the Colombian people are organizing massive protests demanding his ouster! pic.twitter.com/lfodJMicb8
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) January 26, 2025
The locals have very good reasons for being angry:.
The U.S. imports 17% of its coffee from Colombia. But 40% of all of Colombia's exports go to the U.S. A 50% tariff is going to hurt them more than a reciprocal tariff will hurt us. It comes just as Valentine's Day is around the corner, which is probably Colombian flower farmers' biggest payday of the year. Say goodbye to that if these tariffs go through.
El 17% de las importaciones de café de EEUU vienen de Colombia. Pero lo que es más pesado: el 40% de las exportaciones de café de Colombia son hacia EEUU.
— Orlando Avendaño (@OrlvndoA) January 26, 2025
Y Colombia es el principal proveedor de flores de Estados Unidos. A pocos días de San Valentín.
Meanwhile, Colombia's top export is not coffee or flowers, but oil -- and almost all of it goes to the U.S. A 50% tariff would be disastrous.
El petróleo colombiano es la principal exportación, y casi todo está dirigido a EEUU
— Luis H Ball (@ball1_ball) January 26, 2025
He seems to be sacrificing the entire Colombian economy for the sake of a few criminals, which is an amazing trade:
Gustavo Petro es la peor desgracia para Colombia. Quiere generar caos con los Estados Unidos para romper relaciones diplomáticas, causándole un daño enorme a los colombianos.
— Luis Fernando González (@LuiferGonzalez9) January 26, 2025
El precio de votar mal…
Petro must have seen the protests because he went into a crazed, 688-word meltdown:
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 26, 2025
Far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro launches a furious tirade against Trump, calling him a “white slaver”
“You can use your economic power and arrogance to attempt a coup, as you did with Salvador Allende (in Chile). But I will die standing by my principles.… pic.twitter.com/k33xZtDKpz
TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA.
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 26, 2025
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital… https://t.co/WrpxH3Myke
His rantings were those of a crazed leftist, yelling about going to black neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., and watching blacks fighting Mexicans, liking '60s flower child icons Walt Whitman, Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky, his devotion to executed killers Sacco and Vanzetti, icons of communists, "murdered by fascists," whimperings about Trump being racist against him, despite his white as snow skin with bright blue eyes, calls to drink whisky with Trump despite his gastritis, claims that Trump is trying to enact a coup to him comparable to what happened to Chilean Marxist dictator Salvador Allende, meaning, Trump is Pinochet, who got blamed for the reaction, then rants about resisting torture, resisting Trump, then gibberish about yellow butterflies and some colonel he identifies with, then putrid poetry of '60s leftists about peoples of the winds, the mountains, the sea, blah blah, then a wild juxtaposition of Lincoln, COVID, Tuscany, white slavers, battlefields, and other flaming garbage, then bravado about martyrdom and all humanity rising up when Trump kills him. After that, a jaunt into the caliphate of Cordoba, Spain, the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the Athenian Greeks, African songs, Egyptian pharaohs, Chiribiquete artists, Simon Bolivar, the Panamanian soldiers that were supposedly killed during the U.S. invasion of the 1990s, an assassinated Colombian presidential candidate named Gaitan whose death in 1948 triggered all the guerrilla warfare Colombia has suffered from, then Castro-like blockade talk which is baloney believed only by Venceremos Brigade types, then whimperings on the nature of beauty, finally the point of the tweet, which was to announce 50% tariffs on U.S. goods, and more godawful bad poetry about Colombia growing corn to feed the world.
It was the single craziest rant ever put out by a world leader on X. He sounded like he had been drinking or maybe doing lines of cocaine.
And he couldn't stop himself:
Jamás permitiré que en vuelos traigan a los colombianos esposados. Marco, si eso lo.permitieron funcionarios de la cancillería, jamás bajo mi indicación. Cipayos serán.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) January 26, 2025
Yo soy hombre de la libertad, no de las cadenas https://t.co/YWsado2OFO
Did this idiot just call the US a dump? https://t.co/8wDKAoUJHZ
— Monica Showalter (@mmshowalter1) January 26, 2025
I think he called the U.S. "a dump." He's still going -- babbling about beauty and visas or something:
No pierdan tiempo. No tenemos visas.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) January 27, 2025
Entrábamos por derecho pero no importa. El.mundo es mucho más hermoso, y Colombia la más. https://t.co/2j1a7An2zm
Naturally, he knew who his best intellectual ally was:
Colombia's prez just shared a post from a U.S. rep who makes a potato look like Einstein. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/VGXbkDjs2S
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) January 26, 2025
The reviews weren't flattering:
The ramblings of a drunkard. He even compares himself to a fictional character from Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Yers of Solitude!!
— Luis H Ball (@ball1_ball) January 26, 2025
Venezuelan journalist Germania Poleo called him a toddler:
Petro had an X meltdown over the migrant flight because of the military plane and handcuffs. He’s created a diplomatic crisis where Colombians are set to lose the most and now is on X philosophizing about his anti US heroism. Another petulant child putting his anti US freedom…
— Germania Rodriguez Poleo (@iamGermania) January 26, 2025
Even Gutfeld was stupefied:
absolutely none of the presidents conjured up in hollywood movies and tv ever pulled this shit off. https://t.co/uZKUtd55WL
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) January 26, 2025
Tom Wolfe would have been astonished.
In quite possibly the longest most deranged rant ever to be posted by a world leader on Twitter — which references the "black neighborhoods of Washington," the Caliphate of Cordoba, and Noam Chomsky — the president of Colombia announces 50% tariffs on the US. https://t.co/WrJsODL8i5
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) January 26, 2025
News about his crazed and grotesque past went out:
Remember, this entire Colombian brawl started b/c they wouldn’t take back their own citizens that committed crimes in America
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 26, 2025
The Colombian president is also a cross dressing, communist terrorist
He is evil
This is a fight worth having https://t.co/Ckmcsxp4mJ
And this isn't over:
UPDATE:
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 26, 2025
Colombia agreed to pick up these illegals but is NOT yet agreeing to future deportation flights. All sanctions are moving ahead until they relent.
Don’t mess with America.
Team Trump's foreign policy team, meanwhile, moved on Petro like coordinated clockwork, starting with Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez taunting him as the biggest fool of all time and expressing solidarity with the marching Colombians:
Este escrito es incoherente y de esperar de un total desquiciado.
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) January 26, 2025
Usted se ha convertido en el hazme reír de toda la región.
Pobre de nuestros hermanos colombianos que definitivamente no quieren ir hacia el camino del Castrochavismo que @petrogustavo está implementando. https://t.co/RlZ2BMP2Pi
This writing is incoherent and to be expected from a total lunatic. You have become the laughing stock of the entire region. Poor our Colombian brothers who definitely do not want to go down the path of Castrochavismo that @petrogustavo is implementing.
This, too:
🚨Socialist guerrilla President @petrogustavo has destroyed the strong alliance between the United States & Colombia.
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) January 26, 2025
Petro is a Marxist & thinks his lousy rhetoric is cute. He better think again.
We have a new sheriff in town & his name is DONALD J. TRUMP!🇺🇸
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson put out this message to all the potential Petros out there:
🚨 | El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EEUU dice que el Congreso está listo para pasar y aprobar futuras sanciones contra el Gobierno colombiano de Petro. pic.twitter.com/seO3TQeL3f
— Orlando Avendaño (@OrlvndoA) January 26, 2025
In the Senate, pro-Trump Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio, who is of very well-connected Colombian heritage, moved in on sanctions for Petro, too:
This week I will introduce legislation to impose new sanctions on Colombia for refusing @realDonaldTrump’s migrant repatriation flights.
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) January 26, 2025
Proud to be joined by my colleagues @SenatorTimScott @realannapaulina & @ByronDonalds
Secretary of State Marco Rubio yanked visas:
President Trump has made it clear that under his administration, America will no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of. It is the responsibility of each nation to take back their citizens who are illegally present in the United States in a serious and expeditious manner.…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) January 26, 2025
STATEMENT from Secretary of State @marcorubio pic.twitter.com/xg8TddeaoV
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 26, 2025
And Trump was annoyed that Petro interrupted his Sunday golf game:
President Trump was in the middle of golfing when Colombia thought it would be a good idea to FUCK AROUND. So what did he do? He requested Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Trump Int’l to ensure they FIND OUT. America First in realtime! pic.twitter.com/sUckyWtMXY
— Suburban Black Man 🇺🇸 (@niceblackdude) January 26, 2025
... setting the pincer movements in motion.
Now Petro is choking on protests and his kids got their visas to Disney World or some place like it yanked:
Here is Gustavo Petro’s wife and family in Orlando, Florida.
— Linda Catalina (@wakeupwithlinda) January 26, 2025
I am asking Marco Rubio to revoke all of their visas and permanently ban them from entering the United States. pic.twitter.com/9r9MCt6L7T
I hope he goes down like Rumplestiltskin, which seems to be the track he's one, self-destructing before our very eyes over a few flights of criminals, a bad dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and the idiocy of picking a fight with his most critical trade and military partner.
Colombia and the U.S. are the most natural of allies, but Colombia is now being run by a madman and Colombians are not going to take it anymore. Petro revealed himself in all his Marxist glory just because of the power of President Trump. He's the "perfect Latin American idiot," as Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Carlos Alberto Montaner, and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza (a Colombian) wrote in their pitch-perfect book about his type.
Colombians deserve better. Let's hope they throw Petro out over this, sooner, rather than later. It's time to haul this crazed Marxist off to the lunatic asylum.
Image: National Police of Colombia, via Wikipedia // CC BY-SA 2.0