Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and the POTUS is already promising the press that he hopes to find solutions to the drug trafficking that has been plaguing relations between the two nations. The meeting is somewhat unexpected, considering the year began with Petro condemning an operation in Venezuela — and Trump responding by calling him a “sick man” who should “watch his a**.”
President Petro is currently term-limited and, unlike Trump, has given his word that he will leave office at the end of his final term. Petro and Trump have had growing differences since Trump returned to power in January 2025. The Trump administration had already promised its base that it would carry out a hardline and strategic crackdown on drug trafficking.
