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Way to go Trump! He's already getting these criminals off our streets and out of our country and he hasn't even been in office a week.

So these countries don’t want their own citizens back? If that’s the case why would we want them? Looks like Trump was right, they aren’t sending their best

It appears CNN is having difficultes keeping up with Trump so here's the current scoop... Pesident Gustavo has already folded and even offered his presidential plane to help deport Colombian citizens from the US. For the other countries who thinks President Trump is playing games, his message is simple, it's four letters: FAFO!

Lmao Columbia got scared and caved in immediately hahaha let’s go\nTrump. No country is going to test trumps Gangster. He’s valid

At one time no South American country would have dared defy a US president and risk invasion and regime change, now they all openly defy Trump with abandon since the rise of BRICS. Colombia has applied to join BRICS and these retaliatory tariffs will simply speed that up. Colombia stated quite clearly - we will not accept undocumented migrants who have done nothing wrong but work, pay their tax and behave as excellent members of US society - basically Trump try somewhere else to dump your unwanted workers. Americans' favourite Colombian coffees have just become 25% more expensive, millions of cups of Colombian coffee is drunk the US every week. \n\nTrump’s ridiculous comment about Jordan, Egypt and other Gulf countries taking Palestinians whilst Gaza is rebuilt is equally stupid; those countries cannot accept forcibly expelled, ethnically cleansed Gazans because that would be a War Crime and render those countries liable to be accused of complicity in a War Crime by the International Court of Justice; they would also incur the wrath of their respective populations and put their governments at risk of being overthrown. \n\nAll the surrounding countries and the International Community needs to do is to flood Gaza with thousands of tons of humanitarian aid and millions of large family-sized tents, as well as mobile toilets and washing facilities. Supply bulldozers and rubble removing machinery to clean the land up as quickly as possible, as well as bomb detection kits to protect the children. The Gazan people are incredibly resilient and will happily live in tents whilst their country is being rebuilt around them, and the State of Palestine begins to emerge again. \n??

AFTER TRUMP TOLD COLUMBIA THE CONSEQUENCES FOR DENIAL OF THE CRIMINALS TO BE RETURNED THE DICTATOR LEADER. SAID HE WOULD FLY THESE PEOPLE BACK TO HIS COUNTRY AND THEY WOULD DEAL WITH THEM. FAFO IS WHAT ALL THESE COUNTRIES ARE NOW AWARE OF. THE LION IS IN CHARGE NOW.

Trump is sending planes to countries without talking to those countries first. Just a bully

RETURN TO SENDER, \nBUT SENDER REFUSED?\nNo wonder Trump is right to get em out!\nImagine Columbia paying to return Americans it denied entry, only to have USA refuse to them to come home! \nTrump is right that many countries are taking advantage of America!

I love how the Columbian president just folded so quickly. The reality is, read the whole post. You'll see how strong it is. Basically, nobody is going to refuse to take their damn criminals back. Because if they do, Trump will make their economy collapse. It's about time someone sorted this country out.

Trump will encourage countries to join BRICS--he may think it is the late 19th century, but there is a new economic power alliiance in 2025-- and its GDP combined is much higher that the USA. Let see how this works.

This is what it's like when you feel like the country's being run from Trump Towers rather than the White House. Good luck.

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...

Ahhh Yes, let it all begin!!! Its only been a week & Trump has done more than Biden / Harris did in 4 years. Love it absolutely love it, enough is enough & about time every country realizes they arent/cant keep sending their problems & illegal immigrants to our border to cross in / enter the U.S illegally! Hopefully Trump sticks to it & sends back as many of them as physically possible! Time to focus on making our country great again, eliminate the nonsense & ? show Biden/Harris created and allowed! All the south american and central american counries better wake up n deal with their wonderful citizens because its not the U.S job or obligation to just allow and accept them. If they want to do it legally and right way, sure im all for it, but enough is enough! How about we start sending all of our criminals etc to their countries on a free for all and thousands of them at a time not just a couple!?! Pretty sure the majority of U.S citizens have had enough & 99% are glad Trumps a man of his word & does what when & how he says it!

He is an IDIOT! Could someone tell him that tariffs cost Americans!!!\nIt doesn't affect the countries that Trump thinks he is punishing.\n\nCOUNTRIES ARE LAUGHING AT HIM BECAUSE HE IS MAKING IT HARDER FOR ANERICANS TO LIVE!\n\nTrump thinks he's being a tough guy. Wow 25% up to 50% against the countries. WRONG STABLE GENIUS WE, AMERICAN PEOPLE, PAY THAT 25% TARIFFS.\n\nCan someone send him a book explaining who actually pay tariffs!!!!

Trump 100 enforcing the laws in our country

CNN “racist Trump tariffs Columbia” reality: Columbia, Panama, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala caused this crises by being corrupt and running their countries into the ground due to greed, and letting their poor walk into the US, blame the countries these people came from for being corrupted and irresponsible

10 minutes after CNN posted this the Colombian president caved and offered their presidential plane to help with a dignified return to their country. It only took Trump 39 minutes? i & Columbia folded like a lawn chair

This is so stupid, if trump’s solution to international affairs is to imposed tariffs on the countries who don’t bend to his will, most countries will be smart and form an alliance to just cut the u.s. out and spread the wealth within that alliance. Trump is going to lose all of our trade partners, and bring us to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

I get that alot of republicans are happy trump is showing that the United States finally has someone who will not mess around but do they also realise if we turn our backs on most of our allies (which elon and trump HAVE threatned on nato and UK) then we will just be fighting the entire world at that point and we all know we cant fight every other country alone

How could Trump and his minions not see this coming; lots of countries will do the same thing! Migrants are from all over the world lol. What happens to all this migrants on the planes? Now Trump will stat delegating the blame!

I don't like Trump at all, think he rallies people who are racist towards south and central americans, but also I think a good country never denies a plane full of it's citizens

Trump hit all the country in the world... Trump alone against the universe. \nBut Trump lose his ball when his in face with all person he has insulted...\nOnlu stupid reds caps without brain don't see that...

the president of columbia has changed his mind ,he is now allowing flights into his country ,donald trump is not playing

You know what makes Trump a political buffoon? Americans took over Central and South America in the 1940s. Oh, now that the leader of Columbia turned back American military aircraft this announcer is said he's not popular with his people. And please, talk English.This isn't an immigrant crack-down if military craft fly to other countries at will.

This is going to be fun: ~25% of crops may be lost due to migrants staying home instead of risking getting caught in the fields, another chunk of crops in California may be lost to contamination by the giant battery fire from two weeks ago, and Felon Trump is slapping tariffs on a bunch of countries the USA will need to offset that food production deficit.

Trump is only setting up U.S.A to be the whole world enemy. Imagine these South America and Central America countries expelled America Military Bases and allow Russia and China to open bases all their missles points at us. Congress do something about Trump before it is too late.

HEY TRUMP: Instead of starting up trouble with yet another country, try bringing down the price of eggs, milk, meat ,bread, housing costs, energy bills, etc. here at home!

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

I hope countries don't acquiesce to the bully Trump

So, tRump way on governing is to threaten everyone that doesn't agree with him isn't that the approach of a dictator. But the tariffs are going to HURT US the American consumers not the other countries.

So Trump was thankful for hispanics voting him in and he's thanking the countries we're they originally came with taxes basically. Idiots. -_-

We cannot. Be afraid of a BULLY. Donald Trump is so wrong with his threats. These countries will not let him go in their countries.

for all of you in the comments trying to bash Trump talking about how this was a bad move and going to drive up prices, make enemies, etc. how do you feel now that the Colombian president has folded and is sending his presidential plane to pick them up? The threat of tariffs worked didn't it? Maybe it's time you admit to yourself you've been lied to and Trump knows what he's doing and has our country's best interest at heart.

I think Columbia should load all the US ex-pats onto airplanes and send them back to their country. Trump can figure out what to do with 30,000 people of his own. All countries that he threatens should do the same. A sudden influx of people with no jobs and no homes to go to, should help the American economy as much as Trump dropping migrants off is doing to these countries.

Trump will piss off the whole world,one country at a time.

Omgoodness, he's make enemies from other countries. Damn dumb tRump!

Colombia to Trump ??just sell more to the Chinese or other Bric countries

Trump thinks him spitefully putting Tarifs on these countries because they aren’t bowing to to him . Trump i keep saying he doesn’t care for humanity he out of anger and him being a narcissist and no empathy behind doesn’t care if we the people are negatively affected. No but his supporters this is who they wanted. Y’all tried to hurt those Americans who are your color but you hurt your own selves.

⚠️update NY Post : Colombian President Gustavo Petro quickly reversed course about accepting flights of deported migrants from the US after President Donald Trump threatened emergency tariffs of up to 50% on the South American country for refusing to cooperate.

Trump thinks him spitefully putting Tarifs on these countries because they aren’t bowing to to him . Trump i keep saying he doesn’t care for humanity he out of anger and him being a narcissist and no empathy behind doesn’t care if we the people are negatively affected. No but his supporters this is who they wanted. Y’all tried to hurt those Americans who are your color but you hurt your own selves.

Every country that Trump threatens or in fact imposes tariffs against should immediately respond in kind. HIGH TARIFFS AGAINST THE USA!! Make it hurt, make the morons who voted for Trump feel it most in their wallets!

So everyone better go buy there coffee NOW!! Listen everyone if you voted for this idiot you will REGRET IT!! Trump will ruin our country like ALL HIS BUSINESSES!!

I don’t blame Columbia for not allowing those flights to land. He should have had a plan in place before he started having ICE pick ppl up. Trump is an idiot and he has no clue what he’s doing. He’s going to cause a civil war in this country. Ppl need to wise up and shut this shit show down. \n\nTrump assumes he can do whatever he wants to do. This was not a thought out plan. You can’t just expect countries to open their doors to criminals being dropped off after being away for yrs to your doorstep. If they are criminals committed a crime, put their assets in jail in the country where they reside. \n\nHow about all those criminals, 1500 that Trump just let go in the U.S. now he wants to act like he cares and he just did this to police, lawyers, judges and family members of the ppl whom were doing their job, list love ones and fear for their lives. Ppl best wake up and start protesting peacefully b/4 we have a civil war!!!!

Trump will finish with a world wide trade war. Countries will stop trading with the US and it will cost the US trillians.

EACH COUNTRY HAS THE RIGHT FOR WHO THEY WANT IN THEIR COUNTRY ALSO VIVA COLUMBIA TIME TO TIGHTEN UP YOUR BELTS PEOPLE TRUMP IS TRAMPLING THIS COUNTRY DEPRESSION IS COMING THANK YOU MAGA FOLLOWERS

Trump is so dumb. The countries don’t care about his stupid tariffs as it will only hurt us Americans. Tariffs get passed on to us and not the country being tariffed ?

So Trump just made goods from Colombia more expensive FOR AMERICANS. That revenue Trump is raising is COMING FROM AMERICANS, not from foreign countries.

Trump is the worst and stupidest person to become a president of this fabulous country “ U S A”

It’s funny how this country’s don’t want there people back. Thank you trump send them all back !!!!!!!!!!!!

Every country should follow Columbia let Trump sanction the whole world only for China to rescue them?