Colombian President Comments On Trump’s Operations In The Caribbean
The President of Colombia just said the quiet part out loud.
In a stunning and deeply reckless moment, Colombian President Gustavo Petro casually suggested in an interview with Univision that the world might need to “get rid of” President Donald Trump—snapping his fingers for effect, as if political assassination or regime change were just another diplomatic tool. And yes, he meant that Trump: the president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
It’s not every day that a sitting foreign leader even flirts with language that sounds like a veiled threat against a U.S. president. But Petro isn’t exactly known for playing by democratic rules. A former guerrilla fighter with open sympathies toward Marxist regimes, Petro has increasingly aligned himself with authoritarian strongmen like Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, abandoning the traditional U.S.-Colombian alliance that stood as a pillar of hemispheric cooperation for decades.
Petro’s outburst comes on the heels of the Trump administration’s crackdown on narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean, which has led to several direct strikes on cartel vessels and more than two dozen deaths of suspected traffickers. Trump isn’t playing games—he’s treating the drug trade, and the corrupt regimes enabling it, like the national security threat it is.
JUST IN: Colombia’s President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if @realDonaldTrump won’t change, the solution is to “get rid of Trump” pic.twitter.com/JzRYHGPIzX
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 21, 2025
The escalation reached a boiling point when Petro accused the U.S. of murdering a Colombian fisherman in territorial waters. Trump, characteristically undeterred, fired back by threatening to cut aid, slap tariffs on Colombian goods, and launch covert CIA operations in Venezuela.
The picture is becoming clear: Petro doesn’t just resent Trump’s policy—he fears its consequences. Because under Trump, there’s no room for double-dealing governments that cozy up to cartels by day and beg for U.S. dollars by night.
Petro’s comments weren’t just undiplomatic—they were dangerous. Even if he meant them metaphorically (and that’s giving a lot of benefit of the doubt), they’re the kind of incendiary language that reminds us how high the stakes are in the geopolitical realignment unfolding across Latin America.
What Petro and others in the radical leftist bloc can’t stomach is that Trump doesn’t ask for permission. He acts. He holds corrupt regimes accountable. And unlike so many of his predecessors, he doesn’t confuse diplomacy with appeasement.
So when Petro snaps his fingers and mutters about getting rid of Trump, what he’s really doing is sounding the alarm—for himself. Because if Trump returns to the White House, the days of U.S. tolerance for narco-socialist governments might just be over.