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Originally Posted by Pete F.
The typical FFOTUS win
Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity
Felon: Trade war!
Colombia: OK
Felon: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights
Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?
Felon: They gave in!
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It’s even more stupid than that
Looks like Biden allowed 424 deportation flights to Colombia with 124 in 2024 alone. These were all on non-military aircraft and cleared by the Colombian government.
Trump by contrast ordered two unannounced military flights in defiance of regular international protocol which were refused. And here’s the kicker, the Colombian nationals being deported were all detained by the Biden administration and scheduled for deportation before Trump even took office!
Columbia is a strategic US national security partner in South America and runs a trade deficit importing over a billion $ in corn alone from US farmers. It’s quite likely Colombia will now look to China as a more reliable trading partner.
So Trump is chest thumping over this mess which hurts national security and the US economy all to show how tough he is with an ally whose entire GDP is a tenth the size of California. To further demonstrate his petty narcissism he posts an AI photo of himself as a gangster to taunt others.
I guess at least we get to watch Dr Phil ride around with ICE in a bizzaro episode of COPS where the MAGA faithful cheer on a made for TV prime time event then blame the liberal media for the skyrocketing price of food, all because Trump told them the sky was green.
Sweet Jesus.