It was bad enough watching Colombia’s President, Gustavo Petro, make a fool of himself by challenging President Trump’s repatriation plan for illegal Colombians living in the United States.
But his eldest daughter may have just one-upped him.
Apparently still angry that her father folded and gave in to President Trump’s demands, or possibly upset that the global consensus is that President Trump embarrassed her Dad on the world stage, she presumably made a conscious decision to lash out.
Conscious, yes. Wise? No.
In a strange attack meant to embarrass President Trump, Andrea Petro posted this to her X account yesterday. The full picture is below, in case she realizes we’re laughing at her and decides to delete the post.
— Andrea Petro (@andreapetro91) January 27, 2025
At first glance, that might seem like just a young girl sharing a dolphin meme including her native Spanish.
Just another cheesy internet post, right? Well, maybe — if your Spanish isn’t all that great.
But allow me to translate. It reads, “For every Colombian deported we will return a gringo from the Poblado.”
But I have to warn you… there are layers to this post.
Colombian president’s daughter shades Trump’s deportation feud: ‘For every Colombian deported, we will return a gringo’ https://t.co/xD0Xy69bYN pic.twitter.com/OXJ0dkI14y
— New York Post (@nypost) January 27, 2025
As funny as it may be that she is trying to threaten President Trump with the possible deportation of a white guy…
It gets better. Here’s an explanation of the Poblado reference from a story in the New York Post:
The daughter of Colombia’s president has waded into the short-lived standoff between her father and President Trump over deportations – suggesting the Latin American nation should send back an American sex tourist for every Colombian deported from the US.
“For every Colombian deported we will return a gringo from the Poblado,” wrote Andrea Petro, the daughter of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in a post on X Monday.
She accompanied the cheeky message with a meme of dolphins jumping from the sea under a rainbow-crested sky.
Petro, 33, seemed to be referring to the red light district in the city Medellin, which has become a hub for tourists seeking prostitutes.
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According to that, not only is Andrea threatening to deport just any old white guy to the United States.
She wants her Dad to find a so-called “sex tourist”, someone who travelled to Columbia specifically to partake of the red light district of Poblado and its sex trade.
Even worse, a US citizen was caught in April of last year with two underage girls — 12 and 13 — in a hotel in the Poblado area according to a report in The Daily Mail:
Pretty Andrea Petro, 33, waded into the simmering diplomatic war hours after her father caved in to the US leader’s tariff threat following his country’s refusal to accept flights with deported migrants.
She posted a meme showing two dolphins leaping out of the water under a rainbow on X and wrote in Spanish: ‘For each deported Colombian we will return a gringo from El Poblado.
Andrea offered no further explanation of her bizarre message, but Colombian press were quick to point out that while El Poblado is one of the most popular parts of the city of Medellin for foreigners, it has also become the epicentre of sex tourism and exploitation of minors.
A 36-year-old US national was made a wanted man in Colombia in April after allegedly being discovered with two girls aged 12 and 13 in a hotel El Poblado and leaving the South American country before he could be formally arrested.
Colombian media outlet Semana said on its website this afternoon: ‘It’s worth remembering that El Poblado is one of the 16 neighbourhoods of Medellin where foreign nationals, some from the US, have been caught abusing minors and using different types of drugs.’
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Hence, Andrea’s threat to deport a ‘gringo from Poblado’ is literally meant to imply that they will start rounding up American pedophiles and deporting them.
While I get the implied slap, the fact that she did this on the heels of her father’s embarrassment just makes her look silly.
And the more I looked into Andrea Petro, the more silly she looked.
The X account @therealZNO thinks Colombia, rather than Canada, might be a good replacement for the newest American state:
No one cares what this dude has to say.
We’re about to make Columbia our 51st state. pic.twitter.com/qXrIFqvaDQ— ZNO 🇺🇸 (@therealZNO) January 27, 2025
Colombia… the 51st U.S. state? I’m thinking maybe a territory or protectorate, sort of a forward operating base for the U.S. military in South America, maybe.
Or, maybe, Andrea Petro will slink back into the shadows after her father takes away her internet privileges until she learns not to add to his public embarrassment without checking with him first.
But somehow… I doubt it.
I just have to wonder whether President Trump or Vance, maybe Elon, will have the guts to show up for work today wearing a pink t-shirt with a dolphin on it.
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