“Sounds Good to Me”: Trump Signals Colombia May Be Next After Venezuela

Trump said Colombia is simply a federation “run by a sick man” who “likes to marque cocaine and nonstop it to the United States.” Credit: White House

U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against the authorities of Colombia, stating that a imaginable U.S. subject cognition successful the state “sounds bully to me” and predicting that Colombian President Gustavo Petro would not stay successful powerfulness overmuch longer.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One portion returning to Washington, Trump said Colombia is simply a federation “run by a sick man” who “likes to marque cocaine and nonstop it to the United States.”

When asked by a newsman if his comments implied determination would beryllium a U.S. cognition successful Colombia akin to the caller onslaught successful Venezuela, Trump replied: “Sounds bully to me.”

Trump escalates the rhetoric connected Colombia’s Petro

The comments people a crisp intensification of hostilities betwixt Washington and Bogota pursuing the U.S. seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro connected Saturday. Trump had antecedently warned Petro to “watch his ass” during a property league successful Florida pursuing the Venezuela operation.

On Sunday, Trump reiterated unsubstantiated claims regarding Petro’s engagement successful the cause trade. “He has mills and factories to marque cocaine, but helium won’t beryllium doing it for overmuch longer,” Trump said.

PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST NOW:

Trump: "Colombia is tally by a sick man, he's not going to beryllium doing it for precise long."

Reporter: "So determination volition beryllium an cognition by the US successful Colombia?"

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— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) January 5, 2026

President Petro rejected the U.S. operations in Venezuela and Trump’s verbal attacks, describing the seizure of Maduro arsenic a “kidnapping” owed to a deficiency of ineligible basis.“Stop slandering me, Mr. Trump. That is not however you endanger a Latin American president who emerged from the conflict for peace,” Petro wrote connected the societal media level X.

Petro condemned the U.S. involution arsenic an “imperial attitude” that seeks to instrumentality Venezuela to a assemblage status. Petro’s tenure arsenic President of Colombia is acceptable to extremity adjacent July, arsenic the state enters a important predetermination rhythm adjacent March.

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