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Only the Mexican President Knows how to Deal with Emperor Trump

Everyone else is failing miserably.

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Santiago Ramos
Jan 29, 2025
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On Sunday, Colombian president Gustavo Petro faced off with Donald Trump, and lost. After Petro refused to allow planeloads of deportees to land in Bogotá, the American president threatened the Colombian president with tariffs. Petro folded, almost immediately.

After it was all over, the philosopher Phillippe Lemoine recorded the lesson learned:

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