Trump threatens Colombia’s ‘illegal drug leader’ president as he promises US intervention ‘won’t be done nicely’

President Donald Trump accused Colombia’s president of being an ‘illegal drug dealer’ and threatened to have the US intervene if he doesn’t clean up his act. 

Trump took to Truth Social Sunday morning with a scathing and lengthy post about Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, warning that the process ‘won’t be done nicely.’ 

‘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,’ he wrote. 

‘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.’ 

Trump then said America is cutting off all subsidies to the South American country. 

‘As of today, these payments, or any other form of payment, or subsidies, will no longer be made in Colombia.

‘The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.’ 

He went on to label Petro, who became president in 2022, ‘a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America.’ 

Trump said if the Colombian leader doesn’t ‘close up these killing fields immediately’ the US ‘will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.’ 

America has sent more than $207 million in foreign aid to Colombia this year, according to data from ForeignAssistance.gov. 

The threat comes about a month after the foreign leader ‘urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence’ in New York City. 

Petro, who was in the Big Apple for the United National General Assembly at the time, told a crowd outside the U.N. headquarters: ‘I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity!’

Soon after, the State Department announced that Petro would lose his visa, though he had already left the country for Bogota following the protest, the BBC reported.

‘Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence. We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions,’ the department said. 

That same day, Petro’s social media profile showed he had reposted several video clips of himself speaking at a gathering of pro-Palestinian protesters and former Pink Floyd guitarist Roger Waters in New York.

Petro also demanded criminal proceedings against Trump over a series of deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean, insisting the passengers were poor young men rather than members of a notorious gang.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Petro condemned three attacks near the coast of Venezuela, Colombia’s neighbor. 

The White House has defended the strikes as operations against drug traffickers. Petro accused the former president of criminalizing poverty and migration.

He said: ‘Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the U.S., even if it includes the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump.’

He added that passengers killed in the strikes were not members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, as claimed by the Trump administration after the first attack. 

Petro said the passengers ‘were simply poor young people from Latin America who had no other option.’

Later in an interview with the BBC, he called the strikes an ‘act of tyranny’ and questioned the US’ methods.

‘Why launch a missile if you could simply stop the boat and arrest the crew,’ he asked. That’s what one would call murder.’

He added: ‘We have a long history of collaborating with American agencies and other agencies of carrying out maritime seizures of cocaine,” he said. “No one has ever died before. There is no need to kill anyone.’

The Daily Mail contacted Petro’s office for comment.  

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