The Biden-era swamp never would’ve had the spine, but under President Trump, the message is crystal clear: you don’t come onto American soil, rally with terrorist sympathizers, and call for our troops to rise up in mutiny against their own Commander-in-Chief.
That’s exactly what Colombian President Gustavo Petro thought he could get away with at a pro-terror rally outside the UN. Instead, on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s order, the State Department yanked his visa in record time and told him to pack his bags. EPIC.
In a scorching post on X, the Department said Petro was being kicked to the curb because of his “reckless and incendiary actions.” Translation: he crossed a line you simply don’t cross. He tried to stir up violence, and Trump’s administration made sure he learned real quick that America isn’t in the business of tolerating foreign leaders egging on mutiny.
Here’s is the gist of what he said:
“We must set up an army more powerful than that of the United States and Israel,” he said in Spanish in a video recording posted on his office’s official YouTube page, adding that he would present a resolution that would order the United Nations to configure an army whose first task is to help establish a Palestinian state.
Mr. Petro has been a vocal critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. In his speech to the protesters, which lasted about half an hour on Friday, he compared what he called a genocide there with the Holocaust.
“I ask all the soldiers of the United States Army not to point their guns at humanity,” he said. “Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity.”
If you sit through the last half of Petro’s rant, it sounds less like a diplomatic speech and more like an open call for insurgency against President Trump.
What set him off? Trump’s latest move to obliterate at least four narco-boats running out of Venezuela—boats Petro would apparently prefer stay afloat. The Colombian leader, a former communist guerrilla who’s climbed to power via the “one man, one vote, one time” playbook, went off the rails and demanded Trump be put on trial for daring to take out drug traffickers.
So let’s get this straight: Petro is mad because Trump blew up drug boats. That’s the hill he wants to die on? Sounds like the cartel lobby just found their new mouthpiece.
This is how you deal with radicals who think they can play games with U.S. sovereignty. Want to light matches around dynamite? You don’t get a red carpet—you get run out of Dodge.