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‘Rude And Ignorant’: Colombia’s
Gustavo Petro Rants After Trump Calls
Him a Drug Dealer

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 10/20/2025 1:51:49 PM

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro accused President Donald Trump of being “rude and ignorant” to Colombia after Trump called him an “illegal drug dealer” on Sunday.In a Truth Social post on Sunday, President Trump accused Petro of being an “illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs” in Colombia and denounced that Petro’s administration has done nothing to stop drug trafficking despite the United States’ large scale payments and subsidies. As a result, President Trump announced that he would suspend all U.S. payments and subsidies to Colombia.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mc squared 10/20/2025 2:23:30 PM (No. 2019234)
Why haven't we stopped payments to Columbia already?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney 10/20/2025 2:29:35 PM (No. 2019237)
Trump calls them what they are. Very refreshing honesty!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: seamusm 10/20/2025 2:31:17 PM (No. 2019238)
He is half right. He IS rude. But note - he did not call Trump wrong....
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hershey 10/20/2025 3:00:08 PM (No. 2019242)
Me thinks he crys too much...of course he would when we cut off the funds...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 10/20/2025 3:14:57 PM (No. 2019251)
Trump is known to call a spade a spade. Perhaps Petro is not a drug dealer himself, but his country is a swamp of drugs and dealers, and he isn't doing anything about it. Trump isn't playing the old drug war BS calling it a war and then doing nothing, he is raining down hell on the drug boats, and applying pressure elsewhere. Git 'er done.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: thefield 10/20/2025 3:47:11 PM (No. 2019259)
Senior gasoline should stay away from the water.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: rememberwhen 10/20/2025 4:46:49 PM (No. 2019272)
The Donald is rude, crude, and sometimes obnoxious. But he is also whip-smart, knows how to get what he wants, and doesn't suffer fools gladly. I'm willing to put up with a president who is not a model of genteelness but gets things done for the good of the country. It's a huge improvement over most of what we've had in the last 40 years or so.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: itsonlyme 10/20/2025 5:19:41 PM (No. 2019282)
Laser Guided Missiles. Tears Of Joy,
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Hazymac 10/20/2025 5:49:36 PM (No. 2019284)
La Rochefoucauld: "Il n'y a que la vérité qui blesse." (The truth hurts.) For certain, Gustavo Petro knew of Sonny Corleone's statement to Don Corleone: "There's a lot of money in that white powder." Petro's communist government is undoubtedly in bed with the cartels, as a producer and an exporter. Maduro, next door in Venezuela, is also into that addictive powder, as an exporter. Life expectancies of insiders in the cocaine/meth/fentanyl industry tend to be short. When that much money is at stake, people tend to get dead. Petro probably knows not to commission a fleet of fast boats packed full of drugs like Maduro. Just target practice for America's best.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: SALady 10/20/2025 6:41:04 PM (No. 2019297)
He can call President Trump anything he wants. American liberals do that all the time. But what he can't do is call President Trum a liar and in any way show any proof of that claim!!! President Trump says thing people don't like, but he always tells the truth!!!!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: kdog 10/20/2025 7:16:50 PM (No. 2019314)
If history has taught us anything, it's to believe DJT. If he says you're a drug dealer, YOU'RE A DRUG DEALER.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 10/20/2025 7:28:32 PM (No. 2019323)
It's rude to notice that Columbia is controlled by the cartels and the government is completely corrupt. You are supposed to pretend that Columbia is a normal country with normal politicians. Or in another way....."HOW DARE YOU!" notice.
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