Overview
- Responding to a question at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump said Gustavo Petro should “watch his a**” and accused Colombia’s leader of tolerating drug production.
- Trump asserted there are at least three major cocaine factories in Colombia and said the United States knows their locations, urging Petro to shut them down.
- The remarks followed Petro’s claim that Texas, California, and the broader U.S. Southwest sit on “stolen” land and his call for the United States to “give back what you stole.”
- The United States revoked Petro’s visa in September after he urged U.S. soldiers to disobey Trump, and the Treasury sanctioned Petro and his family in October while criticizing his “total peace” policy.
- TASS reported Trump has not ruled out expanding U.S. naval anti-drug operations to Colombia and Mexico, noting a carrier strike group is deployed in the Caribbean.