Donald Trump has appeared to hint that another nation could be on his hit list after the US captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, US forces struck in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, where they apprehended Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores.
The pair have been brought to the US where they are set to appear in court, and President Trump revealed in a press conference that the US is set to temporarily run Venezuela in the interim until power is handed over.
Now, the POTUS has seemingly revealed that there is another nation that could be next - Colombia.
While speaking to a group of reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump allegedly referred to Colombian President Gustavo Petro as a "sick man" who "likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States", per TMZ.
He vowed that Petro would not be "doing it very long", referring to the alleged production of cocaine, prompting a reporter to ask if the US was likely to strike Colombia next.
Trump then responded: "It sounds good to me."
The latest comments come just two weeks after Trump told Petro to "watch his a**" and called him an “illegal drug leader.”
Following Maduro's arrest, Petro shared a defiant response on X, telling Trump to “stop slandering” him and warning that Latin America must unite or risk being “treated as a servant and slave.”
Colombia isn't the only nation Trump could set his sights on next, as Cuba or Mexico may also be on his list.
Trump also claimed Cuba was “ready to fall” now that Venezuelan oil had dried up. “Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They’re not getting any of it. Cuba literally is ready to fall,” he said.
Though he dismissed the need for military force in Cuba, Trump saved one final warning for Mexico.
He said the country “has to get their act together” as drugs continue “pouring through” the border, and suggested the US might “have to do something.”
Still, he called Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum a “terrific person,” adding: “But unfortunately, the cartels are very strong in Mexico.”
Trump’s aggressive strategy in Latin America has ignited a firestorm of international criticism.
In a rare unified front, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and Spain released a joint statement condemning the military raid in Venezuela.
“We express our profound concern and firmly reject the military actions undertaken unilaterally in Venezuelan territory,” the statement read.
“These actions contravene fundamental principles of international law, particularly the prohibition on the use or threat of force, and respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, as enshrined in the UN Charter.
“They constitute an extremely dangerous precedent for peace and regional security and endanger the civilian population," they added.
But Trump appeared unfazed by the backlash. Speaking from his Mar-A-Lago estate, he praised the mission as a “brilliant” success, hailing the elite troops and intelligence teams who carried it out.
“A lot of good planning and [a] lot of great, great troops and great people,” he said, claiming that Maduro had turned Venezuela into a “terrorist organization” that emptied prisons and mental institutions and sent criminals into the U.S.