president stupid orang utan announces immediate 25% tariff on Colombia

danmand

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I thought he was clear during the campaign that beating up other countries was the point.
Beating up the weak is the Hallmark of a bully. Beat up Columbia but not Mexico, who also denied a flight with deportees landing.

And I will not even mention little Denmark, a servile ally.
 

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To me is seems Trump got his way by playing hardball.

(Colombian leader quickly caves after Trump threats, offers presidential plane for deportation flights)

If everyone keeps doing that he’ll keep playing hardball. At some point someone needs to use a bigger bat.

I hope someone with large testicles will play hardball for Canada
Sounds like the Colombian guy didn't think this was important enough to fight about...... This time.

But Trump is clearly going to keep doing this. And at some point, there's going to be some pushback.
 
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Hey, Colombia didn't fold.

It's on!!!


BREAKING: Columbian President Gustavo Petro just released the following condemnation of President Trump: "Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country


I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period.

You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you.

I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas.

We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom...." --->>> Continued You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

Part 2 of Gustavo Petro's statement: "They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you.

In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same."

 

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UPDATE: Colombian president Petro has just ordered an increase of import tariffs on US goods in retaliation to similar order from President Trump.

This will hurt our farmers who export their produce to Columbia.


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Sounds like the Colombian guy didn't think this was important enough to fight about...... This time.

But Trump is clearly going to keep doing this. And at some point, there's going to be some pushback.
I don't know.
Colombia was accepting civilian planes, just rejecting military ones.
This seems like Trump failed to get his way but is spinning it as a victory.

Now, sending his own plane could be viewed as a peace offering for Trump's fragile ego, sure.
The cost of that was probably a lot less than the cost of tariffs.

The thing is, Trump's minions are going to view it as a victory because so many people (including the Trump people) spun it as Colombia rejecting all flights.
So therefore now they can trumpet that Trump's manly manly hardball won something significant.

The problem is, as you say, this approach requires near constant escalation.
And eventually that results in pushback.

The problem is that most places won't push back until too late, I think.
They are hoping Trump can be placated with some minor gestures when Trump will just view that as "Oh, I can do more".
 

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The fact is that illegal Colombian migrants that did not meet the residential criteria under Biden were deported in a CIVIL MANNER as they are human beings!!

Colombia accepted 475 deportation flights from the United States from 2020 to 2024, fifth behind Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador, according to Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data. It accepted 124 deportation flights in 2024.

Last year, Colombia and other countries began accepting U.S.-funded deportation flights from Panama.

The U.S. government didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press regarding aircraft and protocols used in deportations to Colombia.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a statement said Petro “canceled his authorization” for the flights when the aircraft were in the air.

No official order had been issued as of Sunday afternoon that would allow for the implementation of the measures Trump announced.

“This is a clear message we are sending that countries have an obligation to accept repatriation flights,” a senior administration official told the AP. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss issue publicly.
But this will further screw up Trump's efforts to create trade surpluses, as this is a fact:

Trump’s actions would seem to undercut his goal to reduce his country’s trade deficit. Unlike Mexico or China, Colombia is one of the few countries with a trade deficit with the U.S., of around US$1.4 billion, according to U.S. trade data.

Colombia is the U.S.’s second biggest buyer of corn and corn feed, according to the U.S. grains council, helping boost U.S. commodity exports from farm belt states like Iowa, Indiana and Nebraska to more than $733 million last year.

The U.S. export boom has been driven by a two-decade-old free trade agreement between the two countries, which have for long been close partners in the war on drugs. It is unclear if Trump’s tariffs are allowed under the agreement, which contains a dispute mechanism to resolve trade fights.

Colombia is the U.S.’s fourth-largest overseas supplier of crude oil, shipping about 209,000 barrels of oil per day last year, although booming domestic production has reduced the U.S.’ dependence on foreign oil. The South American country is also the U.S.’s largest supplier of fresh cut flowers.

Trump cannot think outside of the box..........what an idiot!!
 
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The problem is, as you say, this approach requires near constant escalation.
And eventually that results in pushback.

The problem is that most places won't push back until too late, I think.
They are hoping Trump can be placated with some minor gestures when Trump will just view that as "Oh, I can do more".
So far, we have lunatic threats to tariff Canada and Mexico - in breach of NAFTA.

Threats to take Panama and Greenland by force.

And now a tariff war with Colombia.

All heads of state are now phoning each other to make plans of how to fence in the mad bull. From here on in, the reactions are going to be planned and carefully supported by all the countries who are worried by Trump's bullshit.
 

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Plus, let's talk about tariff-mania.

IIRC, Project 2025 wants income tax scrapped in favour of tariffs - because every billionaire player wants to pay tariffs not income tax. With income tax, there is an effort to ensure that each pays according to his / her income.

Tariffs are just charged on consumption. And sure, Peter Thiel consumes more than a starving welfare mother in the Bronx with 3 hungry kids; but not as much more as if he were paying income tax, not tariffs.

IIRC, Trump said he was going to fire income tax staff. And he's continually pumping tariffs in speeches.

Trump is going to fuck up the entire income tax system of the USA, to the point where it is no longer viable. And he's going to tariff every other fucking country in the world on almost any flimsy excuse. That's the plan, folks! And right now, Musk, Thiel, Soros and Zuckerberg are circle jerking each other's dicks about it. (Thiel is actually sticking a dildo up his ass because I suspect he's a Bottom. But that's beside the point.)

So I'm predicting 10 more tariff announcements in the next month or so.
 

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So far, we have lunatic threats to tariff Canada and Mexico - in breach of NAFTA.

Threats to take Panama and Greenland by force.

And now a tariff war with Colombia.

All heads of state are now phoning each other to make plans of how to fence in the mad bull. From here on in, the reactions are going to be planned and carefully supported by all the countries who are worried by Trump's bullshit.
As I’ve said, let’s hope someone in Canada has testicles big enough to deal with Trump.
 
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Plus, let's talk about tariff-mania.

IIRC, Project 2025 wants income tax scrapped in favour of tariffs - because every billionaire player wants to pay tariffs not income tax. With income tax, there is an effort to ensure that each pays according to his / her income.

Tariffs are just charged on consumption. And sure, Peter Thiel consumes more than a starving welfare mother in the Bronx with 3 hungry kids; but not as much more as if he were paying income tax, not tariffs.

IIRC, Trump said he was going to fire income tax staff. And he's continually pumping tariffs in speeches.

Trump is going to fuck up the entire income tax system of the USA, to the point where it is no longer viable. And he's going to tariff every other fucking country in the world on almost any flimsy excuse. That's the plan, folks! And right now, Musk, Thiel, Soros and Zuckerberg are circle jerking each other's dicks about it. (Thiel is actually sticking a dildo up his ass because I suspect he's a Bottom. But that's beside the point.)

So I'm predicting 10 more tariff announcements in the next month or so.
It has always been the wet dream of the asocial rich to replace income tax with consumption tax.
 
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Lefties are going to go nuts for 4 years 😂

Colombian leader quickly caves to Trump, offers presidential plane for deportation flights


Colombian President Gustavo Petro offered his presidential plane to repatriate migrants coming back from the U.S. on Sunday in response to stern warnings made by President Donald Trump.

The move came after Trump hit the South American country with retaliatory measures in response to Petro's refusal to accept deportation flights. A former member of the M-19, which was a Marxist guerrilla terrorist group that killed hundreds, Petro caved in to Trump's demands with remarkable speed.

In a statement translated from Spanish, the Colombian government said the plane will help facilitate a "dignified return."

"The Government of Colombia, under the direction of President Gustavo Petro, has arranged the presidential plane to facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots who were going to arrive in the country today in the morning, coming from deportation flights," the translated statement read.

"This measure responds to the Government's commitment to guarantee decent conditions."

This weekend, American officials sent two flights of Colombian illegal aliens as part of Trump's ongoing deportation program. Petro rejected the flights, writing that the U.S. cannot "treat Colombian migrants as criminals."

"I deny the entry of American planes carrying Colombian migrants into our territory," Petro said. "The United States must establish a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants before we receive them."

In response, Trump unleashed a slew of punishments, including ordering a 25% tariff on all goods coming into the U.S. from Colombia.

"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," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people."

"Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures."

So in the end Colombia is paying for the flight to take illegals out of the US...I don't see what the problem is here.
 
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