{"id":2524159,"date":"2025-12-22T22:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-colombian-president-better-watch-his-a\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:37:56","slug":"trump-says-colombian-president-better-watch-his-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-colombian-president-better-watch-his-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Colombian president &#8216;better watch his a**&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-colombian-president-better-watch-his-a%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2524159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump publicly warned Colombian president Gustavo Petro to &#8220;better watch his a**&#8221; after Petro questioned the legitimacy of U.S. control over former Mexican territories such as Texas and California, citing the 1846-48 war.Trump accused Petro of enabling cocaine production-saying Colombia has major &#8220;cocaine factories&#8221; that supply the U.S.-and called the Colombian leader a troublemaker who should curb drug production. The exchange follows growing bilateral tensions: Petro has criticized U.S. policy toward Venezuela, urged U.S. soldiers to disobey Trump-era orders during a U.S. visit (leading to his visa being revoked), and has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury amid allegations he aided narco-terrorist groups and undermined financial safeguards. U.N. and news agency data show Colombia&#8217;s cocaine production has surged in recent years,and U.S.officials say Petro&#8217;s behavior has damaged longstanding ties, leaving relations among the worst between Washington and any Western Hemisphere government.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says Colombian president &lsquo;better watch his a**&rsquo; after &lsquo;stolen land&rsquo; comments<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2377777\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> warned that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/colombia\/\">Colombian<\/a> President Gustavo Petro &ldquo;better watch his a**&rdquo; after the latter questioned the legitimacy of the United States&rsquo;s possession of southwest states, including Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Petro made comments echoing left-wing criticism of the U.S., questioning its legitimacy in Texas, California, and other southwest states due to their acquisition after a war with Mexico between 1846 and 1848. When asked about the comments by a reporter on Monday, Trump voiced his anger against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-rips-biden-an-aggressive-left-wing-culture-warrior-ultimately-going-to-be-their-undoing-in-2022\/\" title=\"DeSantis Rips Biden: \u2018An Aggressive Left-Wing Culture Warrior,\u2019 \u2018Ultimately Going To Be Their Undoing in 2022\u2019\">left-wing president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4356273\/trump-empathizes-bill-clinton-others-featured-epstein-document\/\">Trump empathizes with Bill Clinton and others &#8216;innocently&#8217; featured in Epstein document dumps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4356086\/trump-announces-new-trump-class-battleships-for-us-navys-golden-fleet\/\">Trump announces new &#8216;Trump-class&#8217; battleships for US Navy&#8217;s &#8216;golden fleet&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4355329\/jd-vance-jen-psaki-nick-fuentes-attacks-second-lady\/\">Vance says Psaki and Fuentes can &#8216;eat s***&#8217; over attacks on second lady<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;He has to watch it because he&rsquo;s got drug factories. They make cocaine in Colombia,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;He better watch his a** because he makes cocaine and they send it into the United States from Colombia.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We love the Colombian people. I love the Colombian people,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;But their new leader is a troublemaker, and he better watch it. He better close up those cocaine factories. There are at least three major cocaine factories. We know where they are.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Petro&rsquo;s comments about the U.S.&rsquo;s legitimacy came in response to Trump&rsquo;s demand that Venezuela return the assets it seized from U.S. oil companies in the past, arguing that Mexico could make a similar demand over territory it lost in 1848.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Texas is a territory that was invaded. It wasn&rsquo;t sold. So was California and all of the southern U.S.,&rdquo; Petro said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Petro peddled conspiracy theories about the U.S.&rsquo;s hostility toward Venezuela, claiming it was really about oil.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, that&rsquo;s a negotiation about oil. I believe that is Trump&rsquo;s logic. He&rsquo;s not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Petro enjoys one of the worst relationships as a head of state with the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, behind only the leaders of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rich-biden-supporter-gets-taste-of-her-own-socialist-medicine-yall-asking-for-handouts\/\" title=\"Rich Biden Supporter Gets Taste of Her Own Socialist Medicine: \u2018Y\u2019all Asking for Handouts\u2019\">left-wing policies<\/a> and rhetoric have clashed with the right-wing Trump administration, with relations only worsening throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Petro joined pro-Palestinian protesters during his visit to the U.S., but took things a step further by directly calling on U.S. soldiers to engage in insubordination.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I ask all of the soldiers of the army of the U.S. not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity,&rdquo; he yelled at U.S. troops through a megaphone.<\/p>\n<p>Washington was angered over the stunt and revoked his visa. In response, Petro said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions were levied against Petro and his family the following month, under the justification that he had emboldened drug cartels in the country. In an October press release, the Department of the Treasury outlined the United States&rsquo;s long list of grievances against the Colombian president, describing him as a &ldquo;former guerrilla member&rdquo; who has &ldquo;provided narco-terrorist organizations with benefits under the auspices of his &lsquo;total peace&rsquo; plan.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It blamed his &ldquo;erratic behavior&rdquo; for driving Colombia away from its longtime partners, highlighting an incident in 2024 when he <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >shared confidential information obtained &#038;ldquo<\/a>;via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-sanctions-illegal-drug-dealer-colombian-president-gustavo-petro\/\" title=\"... sanctions &#039;illegal drug dealer&#039; ...\">secure anti-money laundering communication channels<\/a>, threatening the integrity of the international financial system and leading to the suspension of Colombia&rsquo;s Financial Intelligence Unit from The Egmont Group.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The statement also claimed Petro had &ldquo;allied himself with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-feuds-with-laura-loomer-doesnt-have-the-faintest-idea-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"House Republican feuds with Laura Loomer: \u2018Doesn\u2019t have the faintest idea\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">narco-terrorist regime<\/a> of Nicolas Maduro Moros and the Cartel de Los Soles.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3863822\/trump-sanctions-illegal-drug-dealer-colombian-president-gustavo-petro\/\">TRUMP SANCTIONS &lsquo;ILLEGAL DRUG DEALER&rsquo; COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO IN ESCALATION OF THEIR FEUD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colombia now produces six times as much cocaine as it did in 1993, the height of the U.S.&rsquo;s public interest in the drug production of the country, when infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed. The country now surpasses the cocaine production of South American countries Peru and Bolivia combined. It provides 90% of the cocaine sold in the U.S. every year, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/colombia-coca-crop-033c449cf1124b4ce23cec3716e1aeef\">according to<\/a> the&nbsp;<em>Associated Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations found that cocaine cultivation in Colombia increased every year from 2013 to 2023. This includes massive increases, such as a 40% increase from 2020 to 2021 and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/unodc\/press\/releases\/2024\/October\/colombia_-potential-cocaine-production-increased-by-53-per-cent-in-2023--according-to-new-unodc-survey.html\">53% increase<\/a>&nbsp;from 2022 to 2023. It grew again 10% last year,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-16\/us-places-colombia-on-rogue-nation-list-for-drugs-petro-says\">according to<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump warns Petro after &#8216;stolen land&#8217; remark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2524160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-collage-xdk05zn4m-1766457556300.jpg?1766439699&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[15918,32319,65869,69279],"class_list":["post-2524159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-colombia","tag-donald-trump","tag-gustavo-petro","tag-international-relations-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-collage-xdk05zn4m-1766457556300.jpg?1766439699&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524163,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524159\/revisions\/2524163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}