Petro says Trump has a “senile brain” and called him a “narcotrafficking outlaw”

Bogotá.– The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, assured this Tuesday that the American president, Donald Trump, has a “senile brain” because, according to him, he called him a “drug trafficking outlaw”, in a new episode of the verbal escalation between the two.

“The title that Trump assigns me as an outlaw of drug trafficking is a reflection of his senile brain. He sees true libertarians as narcoterrorists because we don’t give him either coal or oil”, Petro expressed in a long message on X in which he did not specify when the American president called him that.

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On Sunday, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that, like Venezuela, “Colombia is also very sick,” and referring to Petro, he said that the country is “governed by a sick man who likes to manufacture cocaine and sell it to the United States and that’s something he won’t be doing for much longer.”

When asked if that means there could be a U.S. operation in Colombia, like the one carried out in Venezuela against Nicolás Maduro, who was arrested with his wife Cilia Flores and both taken before a New York judge, Trump replied: “That sounds good to me”.

Petro attributed his clashes with Trump to the fact that he does not agree with “the irrationality of capitalism” which is “leading humanity, solely out of greed, to extinction” due to its eagerness to extract more and more natural resources such as oil and coal. “They want to turn us into colonies. Killing humanity is killing their own children”, he added. During December 2025, the US president warned Petro that he would be “next” after Maduro, whom the United States accused of leading the Clan de los Soles, an alleged international drug trafficking network. In his message, Petro denied the existence of that entity and stated that there is no evidence that it operates as a real drug trafficking organization in Venezuela, a position that coincides with the new indictment presented this Tuesday by the US Department of Justice, which eliminated much of the allusions to that group and stopped pointing to Maduro as its leader.

All for oil

“What it indicates is that they kidnapped Maduro to keep Venezuela’s oil,” Petro said in reference to the detention of the Venezuelan president in Caracas and his subsequent presentation before a judge in New York. With Petro, his chancellor, Rosa Villavicencio, agreed, who said today at a press conference in Bogotá that “this whole conflict has to do with economic interests”. “The need for oil for a strong economy like that of the United States implies that it carries out those searches and that, based on the doctrine they put forward, which is the prevalence of their particular economic interests as a country, it crosses and crosses the red lines of principles and the relationship between nations and respect for sovereignty,” said the chancellor. The Colombian president called for a demonstration in Bogotá this Wednesday “for sovereignty” and warned that he is willing to defend the country against what he called an “illegitimate threat.”