The internet is buzzing over a resurfaced clip from November 9, 2025, showing Colombian President Gustavo Petro seriously raising the stakes with U.S. President Donald Trump. This viral moment hits different after Trump just doubled down on his threats against Colombia and other nations, fresh off the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
That intense November press conference happened right after Trump pulled all aid to Colombia, publicly slamming President Gustavo Petro as a “drug dealer” and a “lunatic.” Trump’s accusations didn’t stop there, claiming Bogotá wasn’t doing enough to halt narcotics production.
In that powerful speech, Petro didn’t hold back. He issued a stark warning: Latin America “will rise by the millions” if the U.S. even thinks about expanding military action in the Caribbean. He truly went off on the Trump administration, saying:
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy democracy in Colombia. Harsh, yes. But that’s the reality. And to keep the list from coming out, they send warships to kill fisherman from this city and threaten the neighbor, talking about ‘dictator,’ and so on, as if the people of Colombia would applaud an invasion of their brother — which is not the president, but the people of Venezuela.
When would we ever be so treacherous and sold out, betraying our own blood or the people of Panamá, or the people of Venezuela? They are own people. So, they want the president to do what that coward [Iván] Duque wanted to do, to lend Colombia’s land so that from there they could invade a brother country that shares the same history as us.
Because Bolívar was born there and came to die here in this city. In cannot be, a president of Colombia that would do that would be cursed by future generations, because you would never be forgotten as a traitor. I do not belong to those who wanted to kill Bolívar.
The government of Venezuela has made many criticisms, but I do not mock the people of Venezuela nor would I set a trap for the people of Venezuela to fall into the trap of an invasion that is only about their oil, driven by greed and violence to turn this beautiful corner of South America into another Syria, another Iraq, another Libya, full of slaves, slave trading and new forms of slavery.
[Jeffrey] Epstein‘s list, his friends, those who don’t want the list to be published in the United States. They want to use us here with violence so that the people of the United States don’t think about their own government, but instead get consumed by xenophobia, racism, ideas of racial superiority, and other falsehoods. And they use us to avoid addressing their own problems. The president of Colombia has spent decades denouncing drug traffickers. And the drug traffickers he has denounced have always been the ruling elite in Colombia. They’ve been ruling the state.”
Trump Doubles Down on Threats After Maduro’s Capture
Fast forward to now, and it seems Trump did exactly what Petro warned against. Early Saturday morning (January 3), he unleashed strikes on Venezuela, leading to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Maduro and his wife were quickly processed at a DEA field office in Manhattan. Then? Straight to the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC Brooklyn) – yep, that infamous jail that’s been home to everyone from El Chapo to Diddy, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and even Sam Bankman Fried while they awaited federal trials. Talk about an A-list lineup, for all the wrong reasons.
Even after nabbing Maduro, President Trump wasn’t done. He kept up his aggressive stance, doubling down on threats against Colombia, Nigeria, and other foreign nations. When reporters pressed him about his earlier warning to Petro – you know, the “watch his a**” comment – Trump reiterated it forcefully. This went down at a post-capture press conference, despite Petro publicly stating he was “unphased and not scared.”
In front of the press, Trump didn’t mince words: “He has cocaine mills. He has factories where he makes cocaine. Yeah, I think I stick by my first statement. He’s making cocaine. They’re sending it to the United States. So, he does have to watch his a**.”
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