Colombian President Capitulates, Agrees To All Of Trump’s Demands– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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A preview of President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on foreign nations nearly took shape over the weekend, but in a high-stakes game of chicken, the president of Colombia blinked first.
Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo announced on Sunday that his government would back off its refusal to accept two military planeloads of illegal immigrations deported from the U.S., which the county’s president Gustavo Petro previously called an “undignified” form of transportation for his citizens.
“A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” Petro initially said. “That is why I returned the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants… In civilian planes, without being treated like criminals, we will receive our fellow citizens.”
In response, President Trump went on a social media tirade, excoriating the South American leader and threatening to impose an immediate 25% tariff on all Colombian imports.
“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,” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Sunday afternoon.
