Almost certainly what happened here is Trump got cold feet on the tariffs, backed down without a fight, and is now lying to save face. - ThreadSky

resnikoff.bsky.social • 27 days ago

Almost certainly what happened here is Trump got cold feet on the tariffs, backed down without a fight, and is now lying to save face.

Reposted from Eric Michael Garcia

Statement from the White House saying that Colombia "has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay."

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minerva1.bsky.social•27 days ago

I can’t remember the last time a U.S. president got dragged like that. And Americans didn’t defend him, either.

daranglenn.bsky.social•27 days ago

He will get all the headlines he needs though. I’m America he gets to be tough guy who taught Colombia a lesson. As opposition, that’s what we are up against and we need some acceptance.

cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social•27 days ago

Except that it looks like Colombia backed down, since they initially refused to accept military planes and now they are.

suzstephens.bsky.social•27 days ago

Typical Trump. Create a massive problem then heroically step in to take credit for fixing it.

jaxsb.bsky.social•27 days ago

I bet he does not use the military aircraft again. That is how this started.

35rcl.bsky.social•27 days ago

Why do they need to use expensive military planes .

calixtus.bsky.social•27 days ago

To keep up the illusion that it's an invasion, needing a military response

plumisland2024.bsky.social•27 days ago

His trying to look tough?

plumisland2024.bsky.social•27 days ago

** he is **

jmo9876.bsky.social•27 days ago

I don’t see how this is a loss for him. Colombia acquiesced to his threat. we need to live in reality.

itsnotbread.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or... He finally fell asleep and the staff is cleaning up knowing he won't remember any of this tomorrow

ameliacj.bsky.social•27 days ago

I'm confused

freakanatcha.bsky.social•27 days ago

One problem with the tarrifs BS is even if he backs off, the cost of the tarrifs gets baked into the futures markets.

foxfire50.bsky.social•27 days ago

Columbia told him not to shackle the immigrants and not to send them in military planes. That's all. But apparently, that is too much for this sensitive snowflake. Maybe he should have talked to these countries BEFORE just flying people wildly to them like a psycho. But no. Why plan anything?

darius101.bsky.social•27 days ago

Pussy grabs self

tomboktu.bsky.social•27 days ago

The Art of the Deal

resnikoff.bsky.social•27 days ago

Expect a lot more of this over the next few years. Eg maybe the way we avoid invading Greenland is that the Danes “concede” by allowing the US to continue maintaining military bases there.

brad.westness.cc•27 days ago

Fortunately for the Trump admin, his voters don't know how anything works so you can always sell them the status quo as a big victory for Trump

trashpandamario.bsky.social•27 days ago

I'm torn. Obviously it's best if he keeps doing nothing, but I think people need to burn their hand on the stove some.

freakanatcha.bsky.social•27 days ago

The problem is the more he does it, the less effective it becomes. This is especially so when the WH press release misspells the country's name
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-team-flubs-press-release-on-colombia-tariffs-with-a-glaring-typo/

fawnliebowitz62.bsky.social•27 days ago

Maybe he’s about to release an executive order that the country be spelled Columbia. That will probably catch on better than Gulf of America.

rnadoctor.bsky.social•27 days ago

Colombia or Columbia...? 🤔

jlux90.bsky.social•27 days ago

lol there's going to be so much of this ridiculous bullshit...
Trump is so easily manipulated. Easiest way to handle him is "be nice". Make agreements with him that sound likes he's won so he can tell his dumb supporters who won't know the difference but in reality he's gotten precisely nothing.

jennifermagee.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes, but I think other countries being threatened can learn from what Colombia’s president did … he boldly stood up to theRump & didn’t cave … even struck back with retaliating tariffs. The point: do not concede in advance.

entropydeath.bsky.social•27 days ago

It looks like all that Denmark needs to do is threaten an export tariff on Ozempic.

basmitharts.bsky.social•27 days ago

Either that, or he has been on the phone yelling at the Mayor of Columbia SC for the last few hours.

boweaver11.bsky.social•27 days ago

😳🤔😂

0nlychans.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or the Columbia clothing brand

2strong2silence.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or the president of Columbia University

onbluskysku.bsky.social•27 days ago

This would explain Colombia seconding it. They help him save face in return for not doing military flights or tariffs

lkd98.bsky.social•27 days ago

Trump is a true narcissist and a little mean bully.

sportingjim.bsky.social•27 days ago

He is a liar

kdbyproxy.bsky.social•27 days ago

Waiting to hear directly from Colombia. 🍿

enots406.bsky.social•27 days ago

This almost makes me with I had a Twitter of truth social account. I think with the right meme, he could be goaded into not backing down. Just call him weak etc.

80hd.bsky.social•27 days ago

Don't be a fool! Save yourself! *dramatic shoulders grasp* Don't look directly into it!

daralind.bsky.social•27 days ago

I find it wildly unlikely that the Colombian government does not accept at least some U.S. removal flights in the next week — whether they are ICE Air or military isn’t certain, but I suspect they’ll be the same volume of removals either way.

And I don’t know why you assume otherwise.

betterkevin.bsky.social•27 days ago

I'm confused by this comment. All Colombia wanted was to go back to ICE planes and the previous level of treatment of detainees. That is them 100% winning.

daralind.bsky.social•27 days ago

We don’t know either of those things was agreed to for sure, and I would personally be surprised if most of the people reading this exchange would consider “precious level of treatment” — which does include shackling — to be what they envisioned when they read “humane.”

daralind.bsky.social•27 days ago

(Which is what COL said they got.)

betterkevin.bsky.social•27 days ago

Where do you see Ned assuming there will be no flights?

betterkevin.bsky.social•26 days ago

Bueller?

kenrod999.bsky.social•27 days ago

For news on international affairs such as this one, we must now rely on foreign news sources such as the BBC or perhaps even better, AL Jazeera.

plumisland2024.bsky.social•27 days ago

He realized that tariffs can go both ways....

escapefromcapital.bsky.social•27 days ago

Just that they mainly hurt US citizens and not the country being targetted.

wyvern.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or he hasn't actually seen this press release because someone in the staff got cold feet and when he finds out he's going to fuck it up.

50/50 really

ninjafingers.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or somebody told him he couldn't actually do that and he's now lying to save face.

fgw.bsky.social•27 days ago

But Trump certainly got the headlines he wanted, and that is most of what he wants.

hyperplanes.bsky.social•27 days ago

when word reached the billionaire owners' circle about the flours and the coffee, they shut it down

rkfatheree.bsky.social•27 days ago

It’s crazy that the only thing we all know for sure is what he said happened didn’t.

drdarkeny.bsky.social•27 days ago

Donald Trump?

LIE?

elgenie.bsky.social•27 days ago

Not a single military repatriation flight to Colombia will happen going forward but it will be claimed that it was agreed to in theory.

The return of the pre-spat status quo will be touted as glorious victory to worldwide eye-rolls.

509papa.bsky.social•27 days ago

Call a bully on his crap and he backs down!

radgen.bsky.social•27 days ago

Definitely appears that way now. Colombia saying that agreement about the treatment of migrants during repatriation has been agreed to. So, no more shackling and no more military flights I am guessing, which were the only demands that Colombia made in the first place.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social•27 days ago

We had multiple events the LAST TIME where he summarized meetings with the Mexican president, only for the Mexican president to report "that's not what was said." Heck, it just happened last year too. https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexican-president-clears-things-trump-112351090.html

jadinmad.bsky.social•27 days ago

I guess we will see what actually happened if Colombia accepts military flights. 🤷🏻‍♀️

mister-sterling.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's the Eric Adams school of crisis management. Declare a crisis. Then quickly declare the crisis solved. Then go to a private club and party.

williamwendt.bsky.social•27 days ago

He's a damaged child.

bestbeth.bsky.social•27 days ago

Proves that when you stand up to a bully, you win.

rnadoctor.bsky.social•27 days ago

Perhaps, but I think he is really bullying his way into what he wants. Colombia relies on exports to the US more than the other way around. It's the "Gimme what I want or I'll beat you up" strategy.

tathompsonks.bsky.social•27 days ago

Congress lit him up

nbeaudrot.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or the whole thing was concocted out of a misunderstanding of the situation https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanblitzer.bsky.social/post/3lgodghogts2m

enots406.bsky.social•27 days ago

It wasn’t a misunderstanding. Trump wants to use military planes because he wants to be a dictator.

50megatonfbomb.bsky.social•27 days ago

They agreed to stop using military planes, most likely. But the initial reports were that Colombia stopped the flights. They didn't clarify that Colombia has always accepted humane repatriation flights, so his idiot fans will think he's won something

wt-sparrow.bsky.social•27 days ago

Pretty sure American media will report it this way, just to help him out.

boweaver11.bsky.social•27 days ago

Exactamundo incompetent maga hacks

escapefromcapital.bsky.social•27 days ago

Not MAGA, necessarily. Just corporate, and therefore utterly incapable of doing good journalism.

deathshead419.bsky.social•27 days ago

(This is the day that Gustavo Pedro became leader of the Resistance)

peppersmom07.bsky.social•27 days ago

Umm yeah not true

m3j1.bsky.social•27 days ago

What great amount of bullshit! Colombia did not “agree on all terms.” Trump just accepted not to keep using military flights, which was Petro’s ask from the beginning. Stop making echoes of false narratives.

bishopwhitewind.bsky.social•27 days ago

That might be the fastest I've ever seen someone shit their pants.

masonvettericks.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's easy for him to get "all his terms" because it's a very small ask and most things he would trade for letting military planes transport the prisoners are inconsequential or straightforwardly advantageous to colombia.

c0ast3r.bsky.social•27 days ago

fetidmoppet.bsky.social•27 days ago

Inflation will break the spell real fast

80hd.bsky.social•27 days ago

Sounds a bit insecure to explicitly point out how respected again you are

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