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Trump calls Colombia's Petro ‘terrific’ just weeks after insulting him as a ‘sick man’
Trump calls Colombia's Petro ‘terrific’ just weeks after insulting him as a ‘sick man’
President Donald Trump met for nearly two hours with Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House on Tuesday (February 3, 2026), conducting a friendly face-to-face mere weeks after threatening military action against the South American country and accusing the leader of pumping cocaine into the United States.
Mr. Trump said afterwards that he and Mr. Petro had not been "the best of friends," suggesting that he had felt insulted by the President of Colombia because he did not know him and because the two had never met.
Afterwards, he had changed his mind, saying, "We had a very good meeting. I thought he was terrific." Mr. Trump said the pair discussed cooperation in counter-narcotics operations and a number of other topics.
The meeting followed Mr. Trump saying Mr. Petro, who has continued to criticise Mr. Trump and the U.S. operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, has become more willing to work with his administration to stem the flow of illegal drugs from Colombia.
Mr. Petro posted on X a picture of Mr. Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," with a signed inscription reading, "You are great." Colombia's President wrote, ironically, in Spanish, "What did Trump mean to say to me with this dedication? I don't understand English very well."
Mr. Petro also said in an interview with Colombia's Caracol Radio that he asked Mr. Trump to help mediate an escalating trade war between his country and Ecuador.
Still, past bad blood continues to loom. Indeed, in the days prior to Tuesday's (February 3, 2026) meeting, Mr. Petro, a leftist politician, continued to poke at the conservative U.S. President, calling Mr. Trump an "accomplice to genocide" in the Gaza Strip, while asserting that the capture of Mr. Maduro was a kidnapping.
And ahead of his departure for Washington, Mr. Petro called on Colombians to take to the streets of Bogotá during the White House meeting. He plans to hold a news conference at the Colombian Embassy in Washington later Tuesday (Ferbuary 3, 2026).
Mr. Petro brought along Foreign Relations Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, Defence Minister Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez and Ambassador Daniel García-Peña, while Mr. Trump was joined by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, who was born in Colombia.
Just minutes before the meeting started, Mr. Petro, in a video shared by his office, described himself as a politician who has denounced and prosecuted drug traffickers.
Accompanied by one of his daughters and his granddaughter, he lamented that most of his children live outside of Colombia, in exile, due to the fight he is waging against drug trafficking. "We have truly suffered its effects directly," Mr. Petro said.
Historically, Colombia has been a U.S. ally. For the past 30 years, the U.S. has worked closely with Colombia, the world's largest producer of cocaine, to arrest drug traffickers, fend off rebel groups and boost economic development in rural areas. Colombia is also designated by the U.S. as a major non-NATO ally.
But relations between the leaders have been strained by Mr. Trump's massing of U.S. forces in the region for unprecedented deadly military strikes targeting suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific. At least 126 people have been killed in 36 known strikes.
In October, Mr. Trump's Republican administration announced it was imposing sanctions on Mr. Petro, his family and a member of his government over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade.
The Treasury Department levelled the penalties against Mr. Petro; his wife, Veronica del Socorro Alcocer Garcia; his son, Nicolas Fernando Petro Burgos; and Colombian Interior Minister Armando Alberto Benedetti.
The sanctions, which had to be waived to allow Mr. Petro to travel to Washington this week, came after the U.S. administration in September announced it was adding Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in three decades.
Then came the audacious military operation last month to capture Mr. Maduro and his wife to face federal drug conspiracy charges, a move that Mr. Petro has forcefully denounced. Following Mr. Maduro's ouster, Mr. Trump put Colombia on notice and ominously warned Mr. Petro he could be next.
Colombia is "run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States," Mr. Trump said of Mr. Petro last month. "And he's not gonna be doing it very long, let me tell you."
But a few days later, tensions eased somewhat after a call between the leaders. Trump said Petro, in their hour-long conversation, explained "the drug situation and other disagreements." And Trump extended an invitation to Petro for the White House visit.
The Colombian President said he had planned to use the meeting to detail his country's counter-narcotics initiatives to Mr. Trump. And in a diplomatic gesture amid the acrimony, Colombian officials said Petro came bearing gifts, including a signature Wounaan indigenous basket from Colombia's Chocó region for Trump and a handmade gown crafted by indigenous artisans from Nariño for first lady Melania Trump.
Mr. Petro's office released a photo of Mr. Trump and Mr. Petro chatting as they walked the colonnade toward the Oval Office at the start of the visit. García-Peña, Colombia's envoy to Washington, is captured in the frame holding a copy of Mr. Trump's book "The Art of the Deal."
Mr. Trump skipped on greeting Mr. Petro upon his arrival and posing for a photograph with him in front of the North Portico of the White House before a gathered press, a set piece for most foreign leaders' visits. Instead, Mr. Petro arrived at a side entrance of the White House along West Executive Avenue, minutes before the start of their scheduled meeting.
The two leaders did not deliver joint statements before the press, something Mr. Trump typically does at the start or end of most leader visits.
Published - February 04, 2026 06:45 am IST
World / USA / Donald Trump
Source: TheHindu
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