This combination photo from January 04, 2026, shows Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a press conference on November 1, 2022, and US President Donald Trump at the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Kuala Lumpur on October 26, 2025. FEDERICO PARRA, ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
US President Donald Trump has hinted that he has other countries in his sights after toppling Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro. Trump took aim at Colombia, Greenland, Cuba, Mexico and Iran in the space of a single half-hour exchange with reporters Sunday, January 4, aboard Air Force One.
Colombia has been the target of Trump's most hardline threats. The US leader warned leftist President Gustavo Petro to "watch his ass" and said military action "sounds good to me."
Trump accuses Petro of being in league with drug traffickers – just as he did with Maduro in the run-up to his capture.
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