Colombian President Gustavo Petro went on a rambling rant Sunday night, addressing President Donald Trump directly and declaring, “If anyone is stubborn, it's me,” before threatening 50% tariffs on the United States. , “I'm not scared,'' he insisted. Trump's.
“Trump, I don't really like traveling to the United States. It's kind of boring,” Petro began in a rant posted to X on Sunday.
“But I admit there are a few things.” [admirable] thing [about the U.S.],” Petro continued, adding that he then liked to “go to black neighborhoods in Washington,” where he “saw all the fights between barricaded blacks and Latinos in the nation's capital.”
Before complaining about the 1927 executions of Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Colombia's president named several American-born authors whose works he enjoys reading. I uttered one after another.
“I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, my descendants, are memorable figures in the history of the United States, and that I am following them,” Petro said. “They were murdered by the leaders of the Labor Party in the electric chair, by fascists not only in the United States but also in my own country.”
“I don't like your oil, Trump, you're trying to destroy humanity because of greed,” the former guerrilla group member continued.
Later, Petro bizarrely invited Trump, a teetotaler, to drink whiskey with him, unless the Colombian president's gastritis worsened.
“Maybe someday we can talk openly about this over a glass of whiskey despite my gastritis, but it's difficult because you think I'm an inferior race and I don't. Because there are no Colombians, and there are no Colombians,” Petro said.
“If you know anyone who is stubborn, it's me,” the Colombian president further declared.
Mr. Petro then suggested that he feared Mr. Trump would use his “economic power” to stage a “coup” against him, and then went on to say that he wanted the US president to “overthrow” Mr. Trump. , took the bold step of determining “how humanity would react.”
“You can try to use economic power and arrogance to carry out a coup, as in the case of Allende. But I will die according to the law, I will resist torture, and I will resist you too,” Peter said. said.
After accusing Trump of “arrogance,” the Colombian president ironically went on to declare: We are a people of wind, mountains, the Caribbean, and freedom. ”
“Colombia is America's first free territory in all of America, before Washington,” Petro continued. “My land is made by goldsmiths and the world's first artists of Chiribiquete from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs.”
“You will never rule us,” Petro declared, before claiming that his “people” “know how to win the Panama Canal.”
Petro went on to tell Trump that the 45th and 47th presidents are “not afraid” of sanctions the United States might impose on their country because they believe Colombia's “beauty” is irresistible. he said.
“I know you love beauty as much as I do,” he said. “Don't take it lightly and you give it your sweetness.”
Colombia's president threatened to impose a 50% tariff on the United States, saying, “I have heard that they have imposed a 50% tariff on the products of our human labor that enter the United States. So do I.” Finished off a fierce attack.
Mr. Petro's unbridled rants have yielded to President Trump's demands to allow Colombian deportees from the United States on a plane, and only a few have said he would send a presidential plane to the United States to personally pick up the expelled immigrants. I left after hours.
Notably, after President Trump, the Colombian president withdrew. announced He will impose a number of sanctions on the South American country in response to Petro's refusal to accept deportation flights.
As Breitbart News reported, Petro initially said he would accept deportation flights from the United States, but reversed course on Sunday and broke his promise.
Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. you can follow her facebook And with X @ARmastrangeloand further Instagram.
