Priceless: Trump's Power Move Causes Colombia to Cave on Deportation Flights - He Has Perfect Response

President Donald Trump has come in with a mandate to uphold the law and deport people who are here illegally.

He's begun doing that, including sending deportation flights to various nations.

The situation with deportation flights to Colombia heated up on Sunday, when there were reports that the president of Columbia was refusing military flights of returning illegal aliens.

President Gustavo Petro posted on X that he was denying the entry of two American planes carrying Colombian migrants into their territory, until a protocol was established for the "dignified treatment" of the people before they were received.

But then, Trump responded that there would be severe retaliatory moves if Colombia continued with this stance including 25 percent tariffs, visa sanctions, and financial sanctions. “This is a clear message we are sending that countries have an obligation to accept repatriation flights,” a senior administration official said.

Now, it's sounding like Colombia has gotten the message after that Trump response. Quite a change in about an hour, after Trump started listing a raft of things he would do:

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is offering his presidential plane to help repatriate deportees from the US who were set to arrive in the country Sunday morning, the presidency said.
“The measure responds to the government’s commitment to guarantee dignified conditions,” the presidency said in a statement, but did not provide details.

Translation? If Petro offered any resistance, he's caving and taking his people back, because he doesn't want any of the consequences that Trump was talking about. Those are some big consequence for not repatriating your own people. Easier just to take the people back.

And this is what being serious about your actions can get you. Unlike Joe Biden, Trump isn't playing around and he's showing he means what he says. The U.S. has a big presence, and a lot of options to employ when it doesn't get cooperation.

It also sounds like Petro's objection was more a process concern than an outright refusal. That's something that could be ironed out going forward. But the bottom line is, they're going back.

Trump's response on Truth Social after all the hullabaloo was just gold.

Trump and his team are definitely on fire when they get action like this.