Posted on 01/27/2025 6:43:51 AM PST by libstripper
President Donald Trump is not the man to play a game of chicken with.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro learned that lesson Sunday in short order after choosing to test the newly re-elected U.S. leader's resolve.
It all began when, as part of the Trump administration's expansive deportation effort, two flights of criminal Colombian nationals illegally residing in the U.S. were scheduled to fly back to their native country.
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I don’t know Columbia well, but my understanding he’s a Justin Trudeau character - a woke idiot marxist and performance character, who has been around a while, and Columbians are tired of him.
Maybe this will push him over the edge and end his political career
It’s very entertaining that the Columbian president thought Trump would fold like Biden. This has been an awesome week.
Its like the Columbian president is on a tricycle and Trump is driving an 18 wheeler in that game of chicken.
These banana republics need to quit embarrassing themselves.
BTTT
The United States must establish a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants before we receive them."
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Its not about dignity. He simply doesn't want his own people back.
BTW, this Petro guy is a socialist, ex terrorist.
A tutorial in the fine art of Saber Rattling.
From another thread- goes along with this thread:
“To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump.
I’ll illustrate.
Traditional Approach:
1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security.
3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper.
4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the process.
5. The task force reconvenes a week later to redevelop three new, equity-centric courses of action and create a new position paper.
6. The process is delayed a week because Washington DC gets three inches of snow.
7. SecState approves the new position paper for interagency circulation, and considerable input is received from the heads of other departments so the task force must reconvene.
8. The original three proposed responsive courses of action are scrapped in favor of a new, fourth course of action that achieves the worst aspects of the three prior courses of action but satisfies the interagency.
9. Someone in State who disagrees leaks to the Washington Post, who writes a story about how ineffective the Presidential administration is.
10. The White House Chief of Staff sets up a session three days later to brief the President, who approves the new fourth course of action.
11. Over a month after the issue is first raised, the State Department Public Affairs Officer holds a press conference announcing that Colombia has agreed to try to send fewer criminals into the US and everyone declares victory.
Trump Approach:
1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. After a par-5 third hole where he goes one under par, Trump uses his iPhone to post on social media as to how the USA will destroy Colombia’s economy if they do not do what the USA demands.
3. By the time Trump gets to the par-4 sixth hole, Colombia’s President has agreed to repatriate all the illegal Colombians in his own plane, which he will pay for.
4. Trump finishes three under par and goes to the clubhouse for a Diet Coke where he posts a gangsta AI image of himself and the new FAFO Doctrine.
5. Winning.
See the difference? It’s called LEADERSHIP.
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One of the major complaints that LTC (Ret.) Alexander “Chow Thief” Vindman had about Trump was that he “went against the interagency.”’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4292872/posts
Pres. of Colombia was reasonable, as was Trump. Pres. of Colombia didn’t like the optics of a U.S. military plane returning his citizens and offered to fly them back on his plane. Trump said deal.
Teddy’s rule was speak softly and carry a big stick.
Trump’s rule is do not hesitate to use the power of the U.S., and be quick to agree to a reasonable deal.
Trump’s rule can bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
I suspect Trump was just waiting for one of these guys to pull this and this leftist idiot is just the perfect person to be an example. It was a gift.
I doubt that Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s private plane is nearly large enough to hold all of the Colombian criminals who need to be returned.
What about on the tariff front? Trump threatened 15%, Petro got back with 50%
I’m guessing that when the dust settles, there will be no tariffs by either side, so Petro can claim a “win” and salve his ego. In the meanwhile, he’ll no longer obstruct the return of his citizens to his country.
commie bait n switch.
his private plane probably holds 3
no, not acceptable
we might get 100 out in trumps term
use c130’s , globe masters ALL of the mil cargo planes we have. .
He also just got caught on video romancing a tranny. 😆
I you know, but—They’re NOT migrants. They’re illegal aliens, trespassers into the United States from Colombia. They have rights here.
Also, I was in the USAF for 22 years. Riding in the back of an awesome, world class cargo jet is a luxury, and is NOT undignified.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY WE VOTED FOR TRUMP
CHARGE ALL THESE COUNTRIES FOR ALL THE $$$$$$$$$ DRAINED FROM THE US.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro learns his power isn’t what he thinks it is.
Puts his hoody jacket back in the closet.
EXACTLY HOW “DIGNIFIED” WAS THEIR INVASION OF OUR COUNTRY???
TRUMPETS & CEREMONIES???
I THINK NOT
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