As Ed wrote, it took 37 minutes for Columbia’s President Gustavo Petro to reverse himself on accepting Colombian deportees AND to offer his presidential plane to carry out the deportations.
37 minutes, or three holes of golf for the president. Between the end of his third hole, when President Trump tweeted out his threats to President Petro and the sixth hole, the diplomatic dispute was resolved in our favor.
The difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 this time around is like the difference between Michael Jordan as a freshman at North Carolina and Michael Jordan as NBA MVP.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) January 26, 2025
The Pravda media and many in the transnational elite were horrified by what happened.
Donald Trump is so mean.
He bullied the poor, poor president of Columbia. Yankee imperialism in its worst form! Trump is a big mean bully who…