The time of a weak America is over.
Over the weekend, President Trump was golfing when he decided it was time to teach the government of Colombia what would happen if they mess with him.
Colombia had announced that they were not going to accept planes filled with deportees, as the Trump administration had moved very quickly when it came into office to start arresting and deporting people who are criminal illegal immigrants.
That included many Colombian deportees. The president of Colombia stated — while President Trump was in the middle of a round of golf — that he would not accept any of those deportees.
Trump took a quick break in his golf game and issued this statement:
I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people. Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures:
-Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States. In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
-A Travel Ban and immediate Visa Revocations on the Colombian Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters.
-Visa Sanctions on all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government.
-Enhanced Customs and Border Protection Inspections of all Colombian Nationals and Cargo on national security grounds.
-IEEPA Treasury, Banking and Financial Sanctions to be fully imposed.
These measures are just the beginning. 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!
Within roughly 10 minutes of President Trump putting out a statement that he would be increasing the tariffs on Colombian products to 25% this week, followed by 50% next week, the government of Colombia totally caved.
The White House Press Secretary announced:
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. Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement. The visa sanctions issued by the State Department and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned. Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again. President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.
This was the ultimate FAFO.
Gustavo Petro, the leader of Colombia, a socialist who is a big fan of Nicolás Maduro and an even bigger fan of Hugo Chávez, is wildly unpopular in his own country. He had sought to cast Trump’s threat as an affront to his country’s freedom, saying, “You don’t like our freedom? Fine. I do not shake hands with white slaveholders. … You will never dominate us.”
There’s only one problem. They got dominated.
WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show
Petro put out a long, rambling statement which demonstrated how psychotic the far Left is when they are both in power and out of power.
He made a statement on X after he had lost, which has been translated to English. It is worth considering his statement in full:
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 a fight in the US capital between Blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.
I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller.
I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them.
(Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted anarchist murderers who were put to death during the Woodrow Wilson administration.)
They were murdered by labor leaders in the electric chair, by the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country.
I don’t like your oil, Trump. It’s going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, with a glass of whiskey that I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me part of 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 true to my principles, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don’t want slavers next in Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next in Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t join 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 like Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.
You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which lives, before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.
You don’t like our freedom, okay. I don’t shake hands with White slavers. I shake hands with the White libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the Black and White farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.
They are the United States, and before them I kneel, before no one else.
Overthrow me, Mr. President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Colombia now stops looking north, it 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 comes from the Black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, [before] of all America, and 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. You’re opposed to the warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, whose name is (Simon) Bolívar.
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.
I raise a flag and as (Jorge Eliecer) Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA.
Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and it will give its sweetness to you.
FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.
I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.
Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world.
What the hell is he saying? Let’s be clear about this. He lost, and now he’s mad that he lost. But this is what happens when you screw around with the greatest economic powerhouse in the history of the world and happen to be a much smaller country with a much less robust economy.
Marco Rubio, our secretary of state, put out an excellent statement in which he declared, “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. Colombian President Petro had authorized flights and provided all needed authorizations and then canceled his authorization when the planes were in the air. As demonstrated by today’s actions, we are unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration and bolster America’s border security.”
Then Trump, as the Troll Master he is, put out a post on Truth Social that was utterly hilarious. It is a picture of Trump looking like Al Capone, with a Borsalino hat, a pinstriped suit, and a red tie. And in the background is a sign reading FAFO with a drawn happy face.
In his inaugural address last week, Trump pledged, “We are no longer going to be weak. We are going to be strong.”
If Colombia had said no under Joe Biden, the State Department would have done an investigation which would have led to several recommendations. Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, would have suggested that they weren’t sensitive enough, saying something like, “After reviewing these particular recommendations, we’re going back to the drawing board.” Several weeks later, they would have come back with a series of recommendations, at which point there would have been a commission to do a study on what should be done. And the end result would have been a deportation of possibly one-quarter of the illegal immigrants, along with billions of dollars sent to Colombia.
We could have had that.
But, thank God, we got the “brutal, rude, nasty, arrogant” President Trump doing the thing that actually works, which is this: You screw with us and you get the sharp end of the stick.
It’s not all that tough.
Now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t thorny international issues. China is a massive, thorny international issue, but Colombia proclaiming they’re not going to accept plane loads of illegal immigrants back into their country is not a thorny international issue. This is one that President Trump could solve while tweeting from the golf course.
Because guess what? There’s something President Trump has always understood: When you are the United States of America, the most powerful force in the history of the world, you don’t need to play around with losers.
Gustavo Petro is a loser, a representative of a failed ideology, and he doesn’t have any power behind him. There is no reason for the United States to mess around with him.
FAFO. That is the message.
And that message is being broadcast loud and clear by the entire administration. Top to bottom, they are making clear that when it comes to illegal immigration, the buck stops with them.
We are done being weak.
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The time of a weak America is over.
Over the weekend, President Trump was golfing when he decided it was time to teach the government of Colombia what would happen if they mess with him.
Colombia had announced that they were not going to accept planes filled with deportees, as the Trump administration had moved very quickly when it came into office to start arresting and deporting people who are criminal illegal immigrants.
That included many Colombian deportees. The president of Colombia stated — while President Trump was in the middle of a round of golf — that he would not accept any of those deportees.
Trump took a quick break in his golf game and issued this statement:
I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people. Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures:
-Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States. In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
-A Travel Ban and immediate Visa Revocations on the Colombian Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters.
-Visa Sanctions on all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government.
-Enhanced Customs and Border Protection Inspections of all Colombian Nationals and Cargo on national security grounds.
-IEEPA Treasury, Banking and Financial Sanctions to be fully imposed.
These measures are just the beginning. 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!
Within roughly 10 minutes of President Trump putting out a statement that he would be increasing the tariffs on Colombian products to 25% this week, followed by 50% next week, the government of Colombia totally caved.
The White House Press Secretary announced:
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. Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement. The visa sanctions issued by the State Department and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned. Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again. President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.
This was the ultimate FAFO.
Gustavo Petro, the leader of Colombia, a socialist who is a big fan of Nicolás Maduro and an even bigger fan of Hugo Chávez, is wildly unpopular in his own country. He had sought to cast Trump’s threat as an affront to his country’s freedom, saying, “You don’t like our freedom? Fine. I do not shake hands with white slaveholders. … You will never dominate us.”
There’s only one problem. They got dominated.
WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show
Petro put out a long, rambling statement which demonstrated how psychotic the far Left is when they are both in power and out of power.
He made a statement on X after he had lost, which has been translated to English. It is worth considering his statement in full:
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 a fight in the US capital between Blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.
I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller.
I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them.
(Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted anarchist murderers who were put to death during the Woodrow Wilson administration.)
They were murdered by labor leaders in the electric chair, by the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country.
I don’t like your oil, Trump. It’s going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, with a glass of whiskey that I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me part of 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 true to my principles, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don’t want slavers next in Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next in Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t join 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 like Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.
You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which lives, before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.
You don’t like our freedom, okay. I don’t shake hands with White slavers. I shake hands with the White libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the Black and White farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.
They are the United States, and before them I kneel, before no one else.
Overthrow me, Mr. President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Colombia now stops looking north, it 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 comes from the Black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, [before] of all America, and 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. You’re opposed to the warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, whose name is (Simon) Bolívar.
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.
I raise a flag and as (Jorge Eliecer) Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA.
Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and it will give its sweetness to you.
FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.
I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.
Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world.
What the hell is he saying? Let’s be clear about this. He lost, and now he’s mad that he lost. But this is what happens when you screw around with the greatest economic powerhouse in the history of the world and happen to be a much smaller country with a much less robust economy.
Marco Rubio, our secretary of state, put out an excellent statement in which he declared, “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. Colombian President Petro had authorized flights and provided all needed authorizations and then canceled his authorization when the planes were in the air. As demonstrated by today’s actions, we are unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration and bolster America’s border security.”
Then Trump, as the Troll Master he is, put out a post on Truth Social that was utterly hilarious. It is a picture of Trump looking like Al Capone, with a Borsalino hat, a pinstriped suit, and a red tie. And in the background is a sign reading FAFO with a drawn happy face.
In his inaugural address last week, Trump pledged, “We are no longer going to be weak. We are going to be strong.”
If Colombia had said no under Joe Biden, the State Department would have done an investigation which would have led to several recommendations. Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, would have suggested that they weren’t sensitive enough, saying something like, “After reviewing these particular recommendations, we’re going back to the drawing board.” Several weeks later, they would have come back with a series of recommendations, at which point there would have been a commission to do a study on what should be done. And the end result would have been a deportation of possibly one-quarter of the illegal immigrants, along with billions of dollars sent to Colombia.
We could have had that.
But, thank God, we got the “brutal, rude, nasty, arrogant” President Trump doing the thing that actually works, which is this: You screw with us and you get the sharp end of the stick.
It’s not all that tough.
Now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t thorny international issues. China is a massive, thorny international issue, but Colombia proclaiming they’re not going to accept plane loads of illegal immigrants back into their country is not a thorny international issue. This is one that President Trump could solve while tweeting from the golf course.
Because guess what? There’s something President Trump has always understood: When you are the United States of America, the most powerful force in the history of the world, you don’t need to play around with losers.
Gustavo Petro is a loser, a representative of a failed ideology, and he doesn’t have any power behind him. There is no reason for the United States to mess around with him.
FAFO. That is the message.
And that message is being broadcast loud and clear by the entire administration. Top to bottom, they are making clear that when it comes to illegal immigration, the buck stops with them.
We are done being weak.
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