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It's extraordinary to me that people still do not understand that a tariff is paid by the consumer in the country that imposed it. In this case it's the usa consumer paying and not Colombian consumers. The Bonespur must have a different definition of tariff.

Colombia's President said >>>> 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. \n \nI confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller \n \nI 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 \n \nI 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. \n \nSo 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. \n \nYou 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. \n \nYou 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. \n \nThey are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. \n \nOverthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. \n \nColombia 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. \n \nMy 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. \n \nYou will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. \n \nOur 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. \n \nI 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, \n \nYour 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. \n \nFROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. \n \nI 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. \n \nLet our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world \n \n1:15 PM · Jan 26, 2025 ·11.1M Views

And this is the part where colombia will retaliate by dropping the Petro dollar. People have to understand the US is on thin Ice for using what was supposed to be a fair tradeable currency and one of the reasons why many countries adapted it in the 50s but since we have been weaponizing it expect Nations to drop the dollar to minimized the US influence in what is supposed to be an open international market.

The way trump is playing the tariff games will make Americans either to produce everything inside their own country or buy the same product for double amount ?\n\nN.B Most Americans don’t understand how tariff works, it’s always the consumer in the end who pays the tariff, in this case Americans.

Donald does not understand how tarrifs work.

This is a much easier fix than what’s being portrayed. We need to make the ability to become a temporary citizen easier than it is. Background checks, usable skills, and political or criminal affiliation. If it’s not possible to access, so is your entry. I support my president and my nation completely and yet I still understand that the deplorable conditions of these broken nations is something I too would want to escape from. By making it so impossible to legally enter, we’re funding the criminals who will do so illegally. \n And can we talk openly about the real issue as well? It’s time for the U.S to clean house too. Government officials taking bribes from the Cartels and making it harder for us to put safety measures in place. We have to stop being in business with these criminal elements. I get it, the money’s being used to fund our military initiatives that tax dollars can’t, like in the 80’s with Contra, but how many U.S lives have to be lost to secure a foreign policy???

CNN needs to understand the three most important things people voted for Trump has been doing everything he said.\nImmigration, DEI , girls sports.\nNo matter what happens from now until the end he has already accomplished what is important.

Trump must understand that he s not the only dude with balls....clear???

This is what the Dems don't understand about tariffs -- they are a negotiating tool, Trump is using tariffs as a leverage. They're not meant to be permanent. They don't even have to go into effect at all. Just the threat of tariffs is often enough. Colombia can't survive without the US as a major trading partner. Tariffs would kill them. So, they quickly changed their tune. Which is why the Colombian President 'Gustavo Petro' has already folded to Trump and has reversed his decision to allow 2 military transport planes to land there after being threaten with tariffs, serious sanctions etc. Like him or not, Trump understands how to negotiate.

Very soon the american voters that vote for bully Trump .Will realicé the stupid desiccion that they make ...they don't understand what his food that they are eaten very soon Will be Discovery ...\nThe ignorance is bold...

Does he still don't understand he is taxing us of America??? He's ignoring the cold hard facts

This is too funny ?. Just keep issuing even more tariffs is only going to come back to bite us in the butt to us consumers. We get a lot of imported goods from other countries, the costs for us to purchase everyday things you enjoy is going to go up as well. I don’t understand how people don’t understand that.

It is understandable why US import illegal immigrants back to their country. But all immigrants are not criminals and they trying escape poverty and other local issues. They should be treated with dignity. Trump is crazy he is going to tax more from US citizens for something Columbians did , it may not work at all.

I don’t understand why they don’t want to take their own people back

Does he STILL not understand that tariffs don't hurt the foreign country, they hurt American consumers of that countries exports? Do his cult followers not recognize that?

Can understand why they did not want the planes to land because there a mix bunch in there. They may not all be Colombian. Does he expect the drop off points to sort it out on behalf of the US.

???? when will they understand all those sanctions don’t work no more.

Wait, I don't understand. We elected a man with the temperament of a five-year-old, and now he's acting like a five-year-old. How could this be?

What y'all need to understand is that all of these countries need the USA more than we need them! The free rides are finished!

What a shock. Trump tries to bully other countries into getting his own way. Maybe Colombia gave in but it won't work with other countries. It would have been good for a few people to see how tariffs actually work. Most Americans don't seem to understand how inflation works though, so it is no great surprise.

So many people don't fundamentally understand how tariffs work. America is one of the largest consumer markets in the world with the strongest impact on the global economic scale. Every country NEEDS their goods sold to the United States and tariffs make them pay more to get there goods here giving us a cash influx. while also dramatically increasing the competitive edge for domestic companies to compete against foreign slave markets.

The world needs to understand, we have a REAL PRESIDENT in the WH now..and he dont play!?

Say hello to outof control inflation America. Your Glorious Leader is so dumb he doesn't understand Economics 101.

felon trump still don't understand tariffs, americans will pay more for goods, better quit drinking coffee

I don't understand why they feel so betrayed, they broke the law and entered this country illegally!

He’s an idiot, the people who are working with him in his deportation nightmare are idiots. Are they unable to figure out how their hateful plans would be received; completely ignorant understanding of the boundaries that exist. America does not own the world.

From what I understand is that the president of Colombia did not like the fact that the United States sent deportees in military planes and not in a civil/commercial flight, which for him was an insult or discrimination against his people and that is why the Colombian president sent his own planes. That is what I understand.

Some people just don't understand that Trump does not play around. He's a man of his word and he'll take you down. Simple as that

He really doesn't understand that these tariffs are harming us. How about just build the damn wall?

Why in the hell is it whenever he talks about anybody else?He always talks about how unpopular they are, as if anybody gives a flying f***? How the hell can we sit here? And let him say this dumb s*** over and over?And not notice that it's just yeah, exhausting. That's the only thing he's got is.Everybody's just so tired of hearing his d*** stupid voice that we just tune it out. And calling undocumented immigrants.All criminals is a crock of horse s*** as well. I swear I can't understand how we bind this down so hard in politics.

Columbia understands how tarrifs work because they are a tarrif country...Trump is doing the equivelent of holding his own breath til he gets his way...

It's not surprising that Trump doesn't want his grades from Wharton School of Business released because he was at the bottom of his class and he is a multiple times failed businessman who has had everything in his life handed to him on a silver platter. Trump doesn't understand the basic fact that tariffs are passed on to consumers and INCREASE prices, NOT decrease them.

Is there a single Trumper that understands how tariffs actually work? Americans pay the tariff, Colombians won’t much care.

The Dictator of Columbia literally emptied out insane asylums and prisons to send them North to America. Obviously, we don't want them, why is this so hard to understand?????? My God, Biden has left-behind an absolute disaster for Trump in his team to now clean up

Fucke these Latin countries. They are on the receiving end of US aid and they send their criminals to the US because they don’t want them. I don’t understand why people are against this.

People don’t understand tariffs. It hurts the foreign country far more. It means American companies will not buy from them leading them to lower prices or not do business with America. which is catastrophic for them.

He is like a 3rd grader. Trump in case you don't understand.

Does 47 (and his supporters) still not understand that WE pay the tariffs?!?!?!

What stupid trump does not understand is that this will make Petro popular. Lots of countries want what Colombia has to offer

So a line is only 3/4 the length it was?\nValley Girls are gonna slow down enough to understand them.\nThat could be disturbing.

this Cretin really doesnt understand how tarriffs work, the only people paying for his tarriffs will be American citizens.

Not to worry, he will stick them in private prisons so his friends can profiteer off of the suffering of the migrants. \nWhat don't you understand about who Trump is?

This is what Dems don't understand about tariffs -- they are a negotiating tool. They're not meant to be permanent. They don't even have to go into effect at all. Just the threat of tariffs is often enough. Colombia can't survive without the US as a major trading partner. Tariffs would kill them. So, they quickly changed their tune. Like him or not, Trump understands how to negotiate. That's the difference between a President with business experience, as opposed to a President who is a lawyer and a lifelong politician.

I find it hard to believe that so many of these comment don't understand that EVERY product from Colombia can be replaced by other sources. Colombia isn't the only country with coffee

Considering how little Columbia exports to the US, I don't think the moderate government in Bogata is too concerned. But for the average Fox news watcher and retard MAGA crack pot, they still don't know or understand how tariffs actually work.

Honestly how is it possible that almost all of Trump's supporters lack critical thinking, they are just emotional babies like him. How is it hard to think that having such Tariffs affects consumer price at the same rate. How dumb can you be not to see this? I also understand other countries to denay the landing of military planes without schedule or agreed up on time and place. How would US feel if another country just sends their military plane without any information . This is wild.

I don’t understand why Colombia wouldn’t take back their own citizens who were in the US illegally. What if they wanted to deport an American who was in their country illegally… say overstayed a visa? American should just force them to keep that person? People complain that trump is somehow off his rocker but it violates diplomatic norms to refuse to take back your own people .

Why does he NOT understand that we will pay for this NOT other countries…

Americans really dont understand tariffs, Tariffs Hurt the country PUTTING THE TARIFFS ON, SANCTIONS hurts the country that they are PUT ON, i think americans get confused

Criminal. You see, they have no understanding. They wants to break the law to get into the country anyway, when the country had told them, you got to go back Just too many. of you all trying to get in at once illegally. They just people that don't understand.