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RESIST AND SAY NO TO TRUMP! We need to get him OUT! If this isn't a dictator, I don't know what is! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!??

For these slow people, let me explain how this works: tariffs work as a tax on poor people. First time in the White House, Trump put a 25% tariff on China goods. Dollar Tree, which imports from china usually to sell everything for a dollar had to pay 25 cents on a dollar in taxes to collect the goods from the ports. So it passed that tax to the prices. So went from everything $1 to everything $1.25. a 25% percent inflation. Then China stopped buying soybeans from USA. Farmers went broke and Trump have to give them 29 billion in handouts so they won’t go broke. Genius?

He is an IDIOT! Could someone tell him that tariffs cost Americans!!!\nIt doesn't affect the countries that Trump thinks he is punishing.\n\nCOUNTRIES ARE LAUGHING AT HIM BECAUSE HE IS MAKING IT HARDER FOR ANERICANS TO LIVE!\n\nTrump thinks he's being a tough guy. Wow 25% up to 50% against the countries. WRONG STABLE GENIUS WE, AMERICAN PEOPLE, PAY THAT 25% TARIFFS.\n\nCan someone send him a book explaining who actually pay tariffs!!!!

CNN “racist Trump tariffs Columbia” reality: Columbia, Panama, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala caused this crises by being corrupt and running their countries into the ground due to greed, and letting their poor walk into the US, blame the countries these people came from for being corrupted and irresponsible

REVENUE DOESN'T THIS MAN KNOW THAT WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PAY THESE TARIFFS ??WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE ACTUALLY TELL DONALD TRUMP TO WAKE THE HELL UP!!!??

It's only going to hurt the American people, Trump is so fucking STUPID!

The Colombian president was claiming that migrants are welcome back as long as they are not treated as criminals since they are not criminals. Entering the US illegally is a civil offense like passing red light but not a criminal offense under US law. So then he said he could send his own plane and make sure that those people are not handcuffed and treated with dignity in their arrival, since Trump was treating them as criminals. It is not like some here are saying that the tariff threat caused him to back off, it was just a point of being treated fairly since they are not criminals.

President Trump can you come\nOver to my house and really talk you want to do about LGBT please, I know you not about gay people but you are very specific about other stuff….. nothing to do about that conversation but really need to know what’s going on. Hopefully I will hear from you. Tks

I don't like Trump at all, think he rallies people who are racist towards south and central americans, but also I think a good country never denies a plane full of it's citizens

Trump is just a puppet. He never left the set of The Apprentice he just changed location to the White House. Holding the puppet strings are all of the would-be oligarchs and authors of project 2025, and he's developing a posse of criminals to bully American citizens. My hope is that they're all heading for a steep cliff to fall into and disappear. Not practical but ever hopeful. That's probably not a very kind thing to say but so many people are suffering because of this 2025 administration. I don't even like to say his name because I have already had a shower today. ???

It sucks I Donald Trump continues to create enemies with our neighbors. I don’t see this as a positive outcome at all because he might need our neighbors at some point in time and they’re not gonna be there to help us. It’s gonna be like a slap in our faces And they’re not taking the deport back in Columbia that he sent over there. The people’s dignities was taken away from them. They came there all handcuffed, and and he treated them in a very degrading way according to the report that I read to the Midas touch and it’s just awful

I tell you now.... \nHes already making the American people suffer \n\nColombia probably end up with brics\n\nStupid...\n\nI swear ... Trump \nIs Nero all over again \nHe's gonna burn down his own kingdom

You know what makes Trump a political buffoon? Americans took over Central and South America in the 1940s. Oh, now that the leader of Columbia turned back American military aircraft this announcer is said he's not popular with his people. And please, talk English.This isn't an immigrant crack-down if military craft fly to other countries at will.

That's right, take your People back that illegally crossed the border. God bless donald trump

What this article FAILS to cover is that Columbia only refused these flights because of the flights that went to Brasil where ALL the migrants were put on the planes in handcuffs AND shackles! The Columbian President was simply asking for some assurance that Trump would not MISTREAT his people this way. Which of course made Trump mad enough to clench his fists, hold his breath and stamp on the carpet.

I think Columbia should load all the US ex-pats onto airplanes and send them back to their country. Trump can figure out what to do with 30,000 people of his own. All countries that he threatens should do the same. A sudden influx of people with no jobs and no homes to go to, should help the American economy as much as Trump dropping migrants off is doing to these countries.

I wish Trump was in his 50s. We need him for a lot longer than 4 more years. The constitution is not written in stones. We can have an amendment that would give Trump as many years as we the people want.

All the energy that is going to deporting people. Hopefully someone will do the cost-benefit. Seems like a major waste of time. Imagine if the Border Bill had been passed in 2024 and by now we could have had this all under organized control without all of this spending so much money, time and effort in rounding people up and deporting them. Add to all of that the cost of tariffs that Trump is putting on Columbia and I expect others in the coming weeks and months. What a waste. Trump also not getting this whole thing organized which is the major direction we have to go in the final analysis.

People in these comments are on some serious copium. Y’all actin like coffee prices are gonna be a big problem because you have nothing negative to say about what Trump did. Like y’all give a shit when you go to Starbucks and spend $8 on a coffee already, or is it more? This hurts then more than it would hurt us btw, that’s why they folded so easily. Trump knew they would fold easily. Btw we can get coffee somewhere else if you truly need coffee to love you can probably drink espresso too. I buy a brand imported from Italy

Both sides lack enormous diplomatic skills. Trump is sending migrants back enchained which is is humanly degrading, and Petro is handling it like a toddler as well, knowing a lot of people depend on exports to the US.

I know most of y'all's hate for Trump will not make you see the good thing in what he's done. You just going to keep talking about Colombian coffee costing more, even though Trump's strategy actually worked and the Colombian President used his plane to welcome his people

Trump thinks him spitefully putting Tarifs on these countries because they aren’t bowing to to him . Trump i keep saying he doesn’t care for humanity he out of anger and him being a narcissist and no empathy behind doesn’t care if we the people are negatively affected. No but his supporters this is who they wanted. Y’all tried to hurt those Americans who are your color but you hurt your own selves.

Trump is not here to play. the government will not take their own people but want the US to keep them

Trump thinks him spitefully putting Tarifs on these countries because they aren’t bowing to to him . Trump i keep saying he doesn’t care for humanity he out of anger and him being a narcissist and no empathy behind doesn’t care if we the people are negatively affected. No but his supporters this is who they wanted. Y’all tried to hurt those Americans who are your color but you hurt your own selves.

Those who are opposing this would rather suffer crimes from these illegal criminals than let Trump do what he needs to do. This would not have happened if the president they elected did not have an open border policy. The people who voted for Biden can also be blamed for this.

great! \nlots of fruit, spices, coffees, chocolate, some metals, lime and other cement components, on and on and on are all about to have prices skyrocket. hope ya'll didn't want to buy any lumber, that's gonna suffer soon too\nso trump just wants to punish the american people because the columbian president refused to bend knee to his absurd display. this makes sense... *big sad sigh*

So in retaliation to Columbia, Trump punishes the American people?

Biden gave all these people jobs by what he did, just think if trump didn’t get elected what would they do?

Time to DEPORT Trump to Russia along with all the people that voted for him.............................................

The Colombian president is sending his plane to pick up his people from Honduras. Good job Trump

Is it too hard-to-treat people with dignity and respect. Trump takes that request as an insult. So, it begins!

TRUMP'S FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF COLUMBIA - because he didn't get his poorly thought-out way, to dump people on Columbian airport runways.

So trump thought it was that easy. People actually voted for the doche. The idiots ?

EACH COUNTRY HAS THE RIGHT FOR WHO THEY WANT IN THEIR COUNTRY ALSO VIVA COLUMBIA TIME TO TIGHTEN UP YOUR BELTS PEOPLE TRUMP IS TRAMPLING THIS COUNTRY DEPRESSION IS COMING THANK YOU MAGA FOLLOWERS

Trump is the kind of guy who learned one lesson from school - I think the day his brain worked at school, the teacher was talking about tariffs - he thinks tariffs are the antidote of all problems. The US drinks a lot of coffee, so that means now your Starbucks is double the prices and your people will pay it.

It’s funny how this country’s don’t want there people back. Thank you trump send them all back !!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I opinion? I think Trump they had to give you opportunity. Check the record to the people. And just try to give you paper to the people. They know haven't bar record

trump is too stupid on how Tariffs work, he isn't thinking about the best interest of America ,he just has when people stand up against him , hold tight to your money and spend on necessities ,forget about luxury items for a while

So the only people it's going to hurt is Americans, if that! Trump is a dumbass that doesn't know what he's doing.

Stand Tall Colombia, most Americans stand with you. Trump has no legal right to take many of these people out of America.

Hello Trump haters, i hope you make up your mind when the coloumbia govt. Denied its own people!!

So how's that strong man bullying working out for you tRump? Are crops are going to waste in the field because you're scaring people and you're not even deporting as many people as Biden did without all the drama! You know you could actually work with some of these countries and get a much better return.

Trump is not punishing Columbia, he is punishing the American people. We are the ones who pay for the costs of tariffs on products imported.

Shame on Colombia. They are refusing their own people. Thank the lord Trump is President and taking charge. Shame on them!!!!!

Obama was able to deport most people effectively without starting trade wars and mismanagement of resources. Why is Trump failing at having other nations accept their citizens while with Obama that was wired out?

Trump doesn’t care about prices and what the repercussions are of his actions on the American people.

Lol i pray to God every country stand up to this lunatic. American President is mashing up the world On people in Congress support u but in the name of Jesus God will make you bow down to is niece. Donald Trump believe that you're not bigger than God. So much eye ?water is on you, and prior you're a evil ?

I don’t understand why Colombia wouldn’t take back their own citizens who were in the US illegally. What if they wanted to deport an American who was in their country illegally… say overstayed a visa? American should just force them to keep that person? People complain that trump is somehow off his rocker but it violates diplomatic norms to refuse to take back your own people .

Remember it's not the people of the US it's trump and his stupid people that ok with what he's doing it's them everyone should deal with

No offense, since I don’t know if you guys drink coffee or not, but You do realize other countries export to the US. Have never heard of Guatemalan, Brazil, Peru, Marrocan, Ethiopia, Belgium, Costa Rican coffee? Arab countries etc. They all make great coffee. Coffee is not only from Colombia. There’s so various countries producing great coffee .\n\nThey all export coffee to the US. Unless you ONLY like Colombian coffee this shouldn’t be a problem. I’m sure this benefits other countries to expand. Each with distinct flavors and aromas. \n\nStarbucks imports coffee from over 30 different countries from Latin America, Africa, Middle East. \n\nIt’s like if Trump puts a 25% tariff on French wine. I love my French wine and it would suck. But I still love my Italian and Washington State wine.\n\nBananas like mention also come from other countries as well like Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras etc. \nBasically other countries exist that benefit from this. The only problem I could see is they can’t produce enough . Which I doubt. And I’m sure African countries or other countries can under cut prices if others try to inflate prices just to get market share in the US. \n\nAlthough, coffee prices are not only determined by supply and demand. Country of origin and brand also plays a role. Like I said it’s like wine. I love my cheap Washington State Merlots and my Italian Chianti, but people still buy over price California and French wine .