Leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro has issued an official response to President Trump’s announcement of penalties for his nation after he initially blocked flights carrying prison aliens within the state capital of Bogata’ and it’s a fairly a doozy.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Petro, a former Marxist guerrilla and a vocal critic of the U.S. international coverage, embarrassingly folded to President Donald Trump’s strategic pressure on tariffs and sanctions, making a drastic U-turn by sending the presidential airplane to gather Colombian deportees beforehand barred from touchdown.
This transfer got here after Petro’s preliminary bravado in blocking two U.S. navy deportation flights, a choice that sparked an offended response from Trump.
However Petro seems to have completed cooperating for now and is puffing out his chest once more. Late Sunday afternoon, Petro issued a weird assertion to Trump that have to be seen to be believed.
Petro first scoffed on the sanctions, remarking that he finds America “a bit boring” earlier than happening a weird screed parsing a wide range of far-left American political figures, together with Noam Chomsky. However this was just the start of his nonsensical screed.
The Colombian chief went on to blast U.S. oil, name Trump a racist, and painting himself as a martyr all whereas utilizing vernacular so wacky one can solely marvel what’s going on inside his head.
I don’t like your oil, Trump, you’re going to wipe out the human species due to greed. Perhaps sooner or later, over a glass of whiskey, which I settle for, regardless of my gastritis, we are able to discuss frankly about this, however it’s troublesome since you contemplate me an inferior race and I’m not, neither is any Colombian.
So if you recognize somebody who’s cussed, that’s me, interval. You may attempt to perform a coup along with your financial energy and your conceitedness, like they did with Allende. However I’ll die in my legislation, I resisted torture and I resist you.
I don’t need slavers subsequent to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I need subsequent to Colombia are lovers of freedom. In the event you can’t accompany me, I’ll go elsewhere. Colombia is the guts of the world and also you didn’t perceive that, that is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the great thing about Remedios, but in addition of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I’m one, maybe the final.
You’ll kill me, however I’ll survive in my folks, which is earlier than yours, within the Americas. We’re peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.
TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA.
Trump, I don’t actually like travelling to the US, it’s a bit boring, however I confess that there are some commendable issues. I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, the place I noticed a complete battle within the US capital… https://t.co/WrpxH3Myke
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 26, 2025
After extra race-baiting, he continued to painting himself as a Hispanic William Wallace whereas spouting extra bizarre and wacky rubbish.
Colombia now stops wanting north, seems on the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that point, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that point, who based the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters become slaves by you. In Colombia is the primary free territory of America, earlier than Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.
My land is made up of goldsmiths who labored within the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the primary artists on the planet in Chiribiquete.
You’ll by no means rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is known as Bolívar, opposes us.
Our individuals are considerably fearful, considerably timid, they’re naive and type, loving, however they may know tips on how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. 2 hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, right this moment’s Panama, previously Colombia, which you murdered.
Petro then closed by threatening to impose tariffs on America, which might principally assure financial suicide for his nation.
“Your blockade doesn’t scare me, as a result of Colombia, in addition to being the nation of magnificence, is the guts of the world,” Petro wrote.
“I’m knowledgeable that you simply impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter america,” he concluded. “And I do the identical.”
One might say Petro ought to have simply skipped his complete screed till the very finish as a result of nobody actually is aware of what he was speaking about.
