Sunday was a masterclass in international politics.
It all began when the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, refused to accept any of its own citizens that were being exported from the U.S. 👇
Refusing to understand that illegal immigrants are, by definition, criminals, the president of Colombia tried to puff out his chest to show that he's a good leftist and Trump is a big ol' meanie.
Then Trump responded with fire. Even first-term Trump wasn't this bold.
Trump said these measures were "only the beginning."
And how did Petro respond?
By puffing out his chest even more:
Of course, all that grandstanding meant nothing, because Petro then caved within an hour.
Even better, Petro retweeted, then un-retweeted, a post from the White House press secretary that celebrated his own defeat!
The sheer beauty of this exchange is something to behold.
Cynical's full post was quote tweeted by JD Vance, and for good reason. Let him explain how things are usually done in the U.S. government versus how Trump operates. This quote is long, but good. I promise 👇
Traditional Approach:
1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security.
3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper.
4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the process.
5. The task force reconvenes a week later to redevelop three new, equity-centric courses of action and create a new position paper.
6. The process is delayed a week because Washington DC gets three inches of snow.
7. SecState approves the new position paper for interagency circulation, and considerable input is received from the heads of other departments so the task force must reconvene.
8. The original three proposed responsive courses of action are scrapped in favor of a new, fourth course of action that achieves the worst aspects of the three prior courses of action but satisfies the interagency.
9. Someone in State who disagrees leaks to the Washington Post, who writes a story about how ineffective the Presidential administration is.
10. The White House Chief of Staff sets up a session three days later to brief the President, who approves the new fourth course of action.
11. Over a month after the issue is first raised, the State Department Public Affairs Officer holds a press conference announcing that Colombia has agreed to try to send fewer criminals into the US and everyone declares victory.
Meanwhile, here's how Trump handled business:
Trump Approach:
1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. After a par-5 third hole where he goes one under par, Trump uses his iPhone to post on social media as to how the USA will destroy Colombia's economy if they do not do what the USA demands.
He even called Secretary of State Marco Rubio to his golf club to get the ball rolling on his threats.
3. By the time Trump gets to the par-4 sixth hole, Colombia's President has agreed to repatriate all the illegal Colombians in his own plane, which he will pay for.
4. Trump finishes three under par and goes to the clubhouse for a Diet Coke where he posts a gangsta AI image of himself and the new FAFO Doctrine.
5. Winning.
See the difference? It's called LEADERSHIP.
While Trump was winning, leftists like AOC decided to try to attack Trump by pointing out that coffee prices might go up a few cents if we force countries to take their own citizens back.
As it turned out, those attacks aged like milk.
The art of the deal!
(FAFO = Fiddle around, find out.)
This is what 80 million of us voted for. You love to see it.
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