President Trump, fresh off the decisive liberation of Venezuela from socialist tyranny, has turned his sights on neighboring narco-states enabling the flood of deadly drugs into America. With Maduro locked up in a New York jail, Trump is signaling zero tolerance for regimes that harbor cartels and “cocaine mills,” promising swift action to protect American lives and borders.
Trump’s latest broadside came during a fiery interview, where he lambasted Colombia’s “sick” President Gustavo Petro for overseeing “cocaine mills” and factories churning out poison destined for American streets.
“He has cocaine mills, he has factories where he makes cocaine and they’re sending it into the United States,” Trump declared, adding a pointed caution: “he does have to watch his ass.”
Trump has previously had run ins with Petro over Colombia’s opposition to the U.S. strikes on narco vessels, hardly surprising given the country is the world’s largest exporter of cocaine.
Petro has also accused Trump of treating “Colombian migrants as criminals,” and previously announced that he was refusing “entry of American planes carrying Colombian migrants,” only to completely capitulate and back down within minutes of Trump threatening massive sanctions and tariffs. Petro agreed to all Trump’s terms on taking back illegals.
Petro has since threatened to “take out” Trump after the U.S. President repeatedly labelled the Colombian leader “an illegal drug leader.”
Mexico, under President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, also drew Trump’s ire for letting cartels run rampant. “They’re running Mexico,” he said, recounting his offers of U.S. help: “I’ve asked her numerous times: ‘Would you like us to take out the cartels?’ ‘No, no, no, Mr. President, no, no, no, please.’ So we have to do something.”
Trump has repeatedly floated deploying American forces to dismantle these criminal networks, a move that could stem the fentanyl crisis killing thousands of Americans annually—crimes enabled by open-border sympathizers.
Cuba’s communist regime also landed in Trump’s crosshairs, with the president hinting at intervention to aid both island residents and exiled Cuban-Americans. “It’s very similar in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba, but we also want to help the people who were forced out of Cuba and are living in this country,” he stated. As Cuba’s government teeters, Trump sees an opportunity to counter decades of tyranny that has exported instability across the hemisphere.
Trump also escalated the heat on Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodríguez, warning she must cooperate or face dire repercussions. “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” Trump asserted. Despite Rodríguez’s defiant rejection—“We shall never be a colony ever again”—Trump praised her potential willingness to let the U.S. temporarily oversee rebuilding.
EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with Michael Scherer, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland. https://t.co/mXkv6478jE
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 4, 2026
Dismissing detractors, Trump described Venezuela as “a failed country” that “has gone to hell,” insisting regime change offers a path forward: “Rebuilding there and regime change, anything you want to call it, is better than what you have right now. Can’t get any worse.”
As we highlighted earlier, an axis of tyrannical regimes threw tantrums over Trump’s Venezuela liberation, labeling it “state terrorism” while ignoring Maduro’s human rights atrocities and rigged votes.
Democrats’ meltdown over Maduro’s arrest was laid bare, as figures like Rep. Dan Goldman and Sen. Elizabeth Warren decried the operation as an “illegal war” without congressional nod, prioritizing bureaucratic hurdles over ending a dictator’s reign of terror.
Meanwhile, the global eruption of joy among Venezuelans was captured in footage of celebrations from Miami to Buenos Aires, with exiles dancing and weeping in gratitude as Trump delivered freedom from Maduro’s socialist nightmare, countering media narratives that downplayed the regime’s failures.
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