Donald Trump mispronounced a country, alleged its leader, then understands the historic blunder.

President Donald Trump accused the Colombian president of being an “illegal” drug dealer, while asserting that he is about to slash U.S. funding to the country in a social media tirade that misspelled Colombia’s name multiple times.

On Sunday morning, Trump raged on Truth Social that President Gustavo Petro, of “Columbia,” is an “illegal drug leader” encouraging drug production across “Columbia”. But, within an hour, Trump appeared to realise the spelling errors and deleted the post. He followed up with a nearly identical, more grammatically polished rant, attacking the “low-rated, unpopular leader” Petro for allowing drugs to become “the biggest business in Colombia”.

Gustavo Petro, the President of Columbia immediately retaliated on his X Handle, saying Trump was being “deceived” by his advisers.

“The main enemy that drug trafficking had in Colombia in the 21st century was the one who exposed its ties to Colombia’s political power. That was me”, he wrote. “I recommend that Trump take a good look at Colombia and determine which side the Narcos are on, and which side the democrats are on”.

Earlier on Saturday (18th October, 2025) the US President Donald Trump had affirmed on his Truth Social Post, “It was my great honour to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well-known narcotrafficking transit route”. Trump noted that four people were on board, two of whom were killed. The surviving two will be returned to Ecuador and Colombia, their countries of origin.

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The president began ordering lethal strikes last month on what he claims are drug-smuggling vessels traveling from Venezuela. So far, 29 people have been killed, but U.S. officials have offered little to no detail on who was on board or what intelligence justified the attacks.

This isn’t the first time Petro has condemned Trump’s policies as criminal. Last month, after Trump was compared to Hitler in a fiery United Nations speech by the Colombian president, the U.S. State Department moved to cancel Petro’s visa. Petro had also urged Americans to “disobey” Trump.

“When we believed it was only the property of Hitler, Trump does not speak of democracy, he does not speak of the climate crisis, he does not speak of life, he only threatens, kills, and lets tens of thousands be killed”, Petro said.

Trump’s Sunday posts come after his recent determination that the U.S. is now in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. The cartels have been designated by the administration as “non-state armed groups” whose actions “constitute an armed attack against the United States”.

It also follows amid mounting international skcepticism about the strikes, including calls for Trump to be criminally investigated over them. What actually Donald Trump wanted to mean is Venezuela, the first attack, in September, killed 11 people in international waters and has been described by critics as a serious violation of human rights, possibly amounting to a war crime.

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