Trump News at a Glance: ‘Illegal Drug Lord’ – Threatening New Tariffs Against Colombia | Trump administration

Trump calls Petro a “drug dealer” while US says it hit another boat

Donald Trump has accused the Colombian president of being an “illegal drug lord” and threatened to cut US funding to Colombia immediately, as the Republican senator said the US would soon announce “major tariffs” on the country.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump blamed Petro for encouraging mass production of illegal drugs, saying the leftist leader “is doing nothing to stop it, despite massive payments and subsidies from the United States.”

This came as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that US forces had attacked a ship linked to a leftist Colombian rebel group, killing three “terrorists”, in their latest strike on an alleged drug boat.

Petro rejected Trump’s accusations and described himself as the “main enemy” of drugs in Colombia.

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Jorge Santos says prison sentence is disproportionate but ‘a big slice of humble pie’

Former US Congressman George Santos said on Sunday that his prison sentence was “disproportionate” but he got a “very big slice of the humble pie”, as he slammed his critics in his first interview since Donald Trump commuted his sentence.

Speaking to CNN, Santos said it has been “completely politicized” and called for his former campaign staffer, Sam Milley, to get commutation as well.

“It’s not about … the glitz and the stars and the glamor or getting back to Congress,” he said. “This is a very personal journey and path forward for me.”

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Inside the Republican network behind Big Soda’s attempt to incite MAGA against Maha

Major US soft drink and snack companies are waging a coordinated campaign aimed at pitting Donald Trump’s MAGA followers against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, a Guardian investigation conducted in partnership with the environmental watchdog. Field notes I found it.

Their goal is to thwart efforts led by Maha to limit Americans’ consumption of soda and ultra-processed foods.

To implement the plan, the companies turned to a partly formal network of pollsters, strategists and political financiers with deep ties to the national Republican Party.

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Portland residents mock Trump for calling their city ‘war-torn’

When Donald Trump said he would send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to protect immigration officers, residents immediately responded with a characteristic jibe mocking the president’s depiction of a city in decline.

When US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building where protesters had been gathering for weeks, she found a small crowd of protesters in inflatable animal costumes, not a city overrun by anti-fascist gunmen.

The reality on the ground did not prevent Trump from portraying the city as unlivable.

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What else happened today:

• A Florida City Council member is facing backlash from national American Indian organizations, members of Congress and residents After posting a series of messages on social media in which she insulted Indians living in the United States and called for their en masse deportation.

• Volodymyr Zelensky urged allies not to appease Russia After returning from a meeting with Donald Trump at the White House in which the Ukrainian president failed to secure long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.