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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. pic.twitter.com/f09WiaF8UA — 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. 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.’ 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.

“Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer is one of the relatively few conservative entertainers who has thrived in Hollywood despite the city’s far-left status quo. As such, he had a unique perspective from which to process the recent wildfires that have burned through the region. Like many others, including some prominent leftist celebrities, Grammer concluded that Democratic policies have had the cumulative effect of making L.A. more susceptible to such a disaster. According to Fox News: “I’ve always been a little bit on the more conservative side of things politically around here, so that shift seems to be unfolding because of … I guess you’d call it malfeasance in office,” the actor told Fox News Digital. “I mean, I don’t really know what else to say, but somebody took their eye off the ball, and there’s probably going to be some accountability for that. But you never know in California,” he added. Grammer, who stars in the new film “Wish You Were Here,” said he’s had “a house full of refugees” from the fires, which broke out across Los Angeles this month, with the Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas being hit particularly hard. “I am devastated by the loss, the human loss, the loss of life,” he said. “When you lose everything you have, and that’s happened to me a couple of times in my lifetime, it’s just [like], OK, that’s [when] you pick up, and you figure out what’s going to happen next, one foot in front of the other. That’s how it has to be.” He continued by saying that he’s been seeing “a lot of people around who want to support” the people affected by the fires but understands why some of them may leave the city. Many other Hollywood stars have expressed similar frustrations: Even liberal celebrities are turning on Newsom. Way to go Sara Foster. pic.twitter.com/o7myw428rA — Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) January 9, 2025 ‘NO MORE MISTAKES’: Actor Michael Rapaport went off against Gov. Gavin Newsom and declared the Democrat is “done” as the state’s leader. https://t.co/IFCNbRolCy pic.twitter.com/OM3N7Rc5HY — Fox News (@FoxNews) January 15, 2025 Celebrities turn on Dems, blast LA mayor for fire response https://t.co/UDAE8Ln3l9 pic.twitter.com/8VbMXhEiau — New York Post (@nypost) January 9, 2025 For his part, President Donald Trump wants any federal aid sent to assist in the wildfire response to be contingent on specific policy changes that could help prevent the next disaster. As The Hill reported last week: “I want to see two things in Los Angeles. Voter ID, so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state,” Trump told reporters in North Carolina, where he was touring hurricane recovery efforts. “Those are the two things. After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen,” he added. Here’s some additional coverage of the celebrity backlash against local and state Democratic leaders:

President Donald Trump once again proved his ability to effectively negotiate on the world stage after Colombian President Gustavo Petro initially refused to accept flights from the U.S. containing Colombian nationals in the country illegally. Trump responded by laying out possible repercussions, including tariffs and sanctions on Colombia. Naturally, the mainstream media attempted to cast Trump as the villain, but Colombian-born U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) sought to set the record straight. As Breitbart reported: “If you watch CNN or mainstream media, you think President Trump was somehow degrading and disrespecting Latin Americans, specifically Colombia. It couldn’t be further from the truth. Look, we got to remember how this all started. Colombia, especially the current administration in Colombia, has allowed millions of migrants to cross through their country — across the Darien Gap — and then to be trafficked up into our border,” Moreno explained. “These are criminals, people from mental asylums — this is not the best and brightest of South America that have come into this country, that Joe Biden allowed them to come in. They then committed crimes. What we’ve done thanks to Tom Homan, and soon to be Kristi Noem, with President Trump’s direction is round them up. Round up these criminals, put them on airplanes, ship them back,” Moreno said. “We’ve had a great relationship with Colombia for decades — the current administration notwithstanding,” he continued. “So, what we do is we notify the country, ‘Hey, we’ve got these two military aircraft coming in. They have illegal migrant criminals on board. We’re going to land at such and such a time.’… So, permission was granted by the government. This is the one fact you will not hear the mainstream media report. The Colombian government had given those planes permission to land.” “And, literally in the middle of the night, the president of Colombia decided he was going to retract that permission because he didn’t like that the criminal aliens were in shackles. How else would you transport criminals, by the way? You wouldn’t put them on first class and feed them a nice meal because you could have a rebellion on the plane,” Moreno added. The second Trump administration has already had several immigration and foreign policy wins, including this one, in just its first week: LMAO! After President Trump threatened Colombia and they instantly folded, Trump posted this FAFO What a LEGEND pic.twitter.com/W05pWnyvc1 — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 26, 2025   President Trump is now conducting daybreak immigration raids in Los Angeles. LA is a sanctuary city full of countless illegals and many leftists who said they’d protect them. Border Czar Tom Homan has a message for these activists, “Don’t get in our way!” God bless Hero Homan! pic.twitter.com/YINKhHOAhd — Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) January 26, 2025   HUGE!!! The DOJ is directing ALL 93 U.S. Attorney offices across the country to PROSECUTE any state or local actor who interferes in federal law enforcement regarding immigration & ALL of Trump’s directives! WOW!! pic.twitter.com/Udjqxmfu4N — Michelle #AmericaFirst (@MichelleRM68) January 22, 2025 Fox News covered the dramatic and rapid resolution of the Trump-Petro rift: The White House confirmed on Sunday that Colombia’s president had caved “to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” “Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement,” the statement said. “The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.” “Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again,” the statement added. “President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.” And in case anyone needs a reminder, here’s a recap of where things stood in the U.S. during Joe Biden’s four years in the White House:   ATTN: Selena Gomez and anyone else who is crying about Trump’s immigration policies one week into his Presidency. Wait until you hear about what happened the past four years. pic.twitter.com/3VhMJBtuJu — MAZE (@mazemoore) January 28, 2025

This has been an eye opening first week with President Trump back in the White House, even for those of us who longed for him to get there! It seems like just when I think he’s finally outdone himself… Just when I begin to think there’s no way he could shock us again with his outside-the-box solutions that make complete obvious sense once he says it out loud or makes it happen… He does it again! Just after 11PM EST Monday night, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he had taken action in keeping with his Executive Order authorizing government agencies to do whatever necessary to get the man-made water problem FIXED and the water flowing again in California. Here’s what he posted: Here’s the full text of his post in case that doesn’t load: The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!! After all, it was indeed a man-made problem and there should be a man-made solution. But I don’t know that anyone expected — or even thought of — the follow on action that he was ready to take to make good on his intention. President Trump sent the U.S. military into California, presumably to re-divert the water that Newsom’s state government had diverted to flow out into the Pacific! This is why President Trump says California has “so much water.” The state was under an official drought emergency when I took this video of 20,000 cubic feet/second flowing to the ocean.pic.twitter.com/aKxcNneGzi — Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) January 27, 2025 A lot of the solutions President Trump floats, and then executes, aren’t rocket science. They tend to be simple, practical, common sense solutions that most people never consider. That’s exactly what this seems like to me.  There was a problem, an obvious solution, and before simply giving up to find a DIFFERENT — possibly more complex — solution, he simply kept working the problem. And he found a way to enact the solution that made the most sense, was the quickest fix, the least expensive fix, which was within his power to act upon. Just send in the military and MAKE IT HAPPEN — Brilliant! President Donald J. Trump – “The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the… pic.twitter.com/1vPTXyOiCW — Golden Age Of America (@trump454724) January 28, 2025 This news comes as most media pundits are still debating the efficacy of President Trump’s Executive Orders regarding water resources in California. In a nutshell, most of California’s democrat leadership (should read ‘corrupt Trump-hating politicians‘) are taking the view that this isn’t a simple fix, and obviously President Trump in all his arrogant ignorance has oversimplified the problem, and thus the solution. But… has he? According to the California Department of Water Resources… not only is President Trump oversimplifying the problem, but he lied and the military did not enter California to fulfill his orders. The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful. pic.twitter.com/f81HJSehDq — CA – DWR (@CA_DWR) January 28, 2025 Somehow, I have a feeling the California democrat-run Department of Water Resources might be fibbing, and President Trump could be telling the truth. I don’t have any proof… just a hunch. The newest water-related order, signed Sunday, effectively empowered both state and federal officials to override local officials if necessary in order to increase the water supply available, as reported by USA Today: President Donald Trump signed a wide-ranging executive order Sunday demanding federal and state officials deliver more water and other resources to southern California to help fight wildfires – even if it means clashing with area leaders. Trump for weeks has criticized California officials over their handling of the latest wildfire blazes, which have killed at least 28 people and burned more than 35,000 acres. “Firefighters were unable to fight the massive wildfires due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure,” the president wrote in an order earlier this month. Some hydrants in Los Angeles area ran dry during the height of the wildfires, but local officials say that’s because they were not designed to deal with major disasters. During a roundtable meeting with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and other officials afterward, Trump said Friday he didn’t know how “devastating” the fires were until he saw for himself. “I didn’t realize. I saw a lot of bad things on television, but the extent of it, the size of it. We flew over it,” Trump said of the fire damage. “It is devastation. It’s incredible. It’s really an incineration.” Trump clashed with Bass on local management and whether residents, including those living in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, can return to what’s left of their homes. Here’s a clip of President Trump covered by Fox News talking about his plans for Sunday’s Executive Order as he spoke alongside local and state officials in the Pacific Palisades area on Friday. Trump: “I’m signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible … you’re talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming from parts of Canada.” pic.twitter.com/4tn5K8RaXt — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 25, 2025 “I’m signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible. You’re talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming from parts of Canada.” Those up late enough to catch the news as it broke instantly recognized the “optics”, and how miniscule Gavin Newsom must feel in contrast to actual leadership. Journalist Nick Sortor was one of the first to spread the news after President Trump’s social media announcement. Here was his take on the ‘ah-ha’ moment he imagined Newsom having: JUST IN: President Trump announces he sent the military into California to FORCE water from north to south, instead of dumping it into the ocean HOLY CRAP. Figured out who the boss is yet, Gavin Newsom? pic.twitter.com/PJQD96QQBc — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 28, 2025 Another top X account pointed out the ‘mind numbing’ incompetence required to create a circumstance where the President had to use the Emergency Powers Act to fix an issue that local and state authorities created, and refused to fix. How embarrassing for the state of California that Donald Trump has to use his emergency powers to come turn on their water. The incompetence is just mind numbing. — Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) January 28, 2025 Meanwhile, normal (non-brainwashed) Californians are celebrating President Trump’s actions. They’ve been here before, because he had to do something similar during his first term! IT’S A MIDNIGHT MIRACLE (for all the East Coasters!!!) Trump just turned the water on in California!!! LET IT FLOW BABY Thank you for praying everyone!!! Thank you @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/62jBDfij9U — Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) January 28, 2025 Even mainstream left-leaning news outlets running interference for those trying to argue against President Trump’s stance can’t help telling the truth once in a while. Here’s the single factual paragraph buried at the very end of an article slamming his actions, as well as lauding the extreme environmental positions, published by Bloomberg: Trump’s order asserts broad executive and federal authority over water management decisions in California. The president directed his Interior and Commerce secretaries to immediately “override existing activities that unduly burden efforts” to maximize water deliveries. And he orders the federal Bureau of Reclamation to take every possible step to ensure state agencies don’t interfere with its operation of the Central Valley Water project “to maximize water delivery to high-need communities or otherwise.” And yet, it seems that no matter how many times or how clearly President Trump opens his mouth to propagate common sense reality, those responsible for creating these problems refuse to hear it. TRUMP: THE WATER IN CALIFORNIA IS TREMENDOUS AND NEWSOM IS HOLDING IT UP “’I’ve been trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come. You’d have tremendous water up there. They send it out to the Pacific because they’re trying to protect a tiny little fish, which is in… https://t.co/TWAvfwB52K pic.twitter.com/ug1nMXCwp2 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 9, 2025 He talked about it for 7 minutes straight on the infamous Joe Rogan appearance prior to election day. Everyone attacked him for it. And then… he was proven right. Regardless of how you feel about Trump, it’s hard to ignore his knack for being right about things. For years, Trump has been vocal about California’s dry forests and the abnormal amounts of fires. He tried to bring about a solution, and the Dems called him Hitler. pic.twitter.com/wTLuKNNhCN — Clandestine (@WarClandestine) January 8, 2025 Here’s some of the data plugged in to a nice graphic showing some of the inflow vs outflow amounts, and how much water is actually wasted by California’s redirection policy. .@POTUS is right. Snowmelt from the Sierra Nevadas and rainfall sent almost 30 million cubic acres of water into the Sacramento River Delta over the past 15 months. Of this, only 23% was sent to productive use in farmland irrigation and homes. A staggering 77% was sent to… https://t.co/sqfGHKDlSK pic.twitter.com/yEQUg5ctMf — Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) January 25, 2025 I actually did a little math of my own.  I required extra coffee, but I pulled it off. That 20,000 cubic feet of water per SECOND that Kevin Kiley talked about in the post showing the outflow of water into the Pacific turns into… 150,000 gallons a second. 9 MILLION gallons a minute. 13,000,000,000 BILLION gallons a day. 430 times California’s total daily water usage. And that is just from that one diverted man-made drain emptying into the Pacific Ocean. Which means California doesn’t have a water problem. They have a governmental problem. They have a leadership problem. They have a politician problem. And unfortunately, that’s way worse than having a water problem in many ways. For proof of that statement you need look no further than the myriad of times President Trump has tried, in vain, to talk sense to those creating this problem and blaming it on climate change and every other possible thing. He has repeatedly argued that water flow could have been boosted to Los Angeles to help fight the fires according to a report published in The Hill: President Trump directed U.S. government agencies to override California’s water policies as needed — slamming the state’s handling of the Los Angeles region’s wildfires in an executive order this weekend. “Firefighters were unable to fight the blaze due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure,” the order stated. “It is in the Nation’s interest to ensure that California has what it needs to prevent and fight these fires and others in the future.” Writing that “it is the policy of the United States to provide Southern California with necessary water resources,” the order directed federal officials to “immediately take actions to override existing activities that unduly burden efforts to maximize water deliveries.” The order follows comments Trump made Friday prior to visiting Los Angeles, at which time he said he would condition federal wildfire assistance on both voter identification mandates and a release of more water from Northern California statewide. Trump has repeatedly argued that California officials could have boosted water flow to Los Angeles from the northern part of the state simply by pumping more of the resource. Earlier this month, he went so far as to call on Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to resign, while also accusing him of failing to sign a declaration that would have “allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.” I’m left with the thought I alluded to at the beginning of this article. Why?  Why can President Trump so consistently see the clear and common sense solutions that so many of us miss to problems like this? I don’t mean simply end the redirecting of the water, or using the pumping stations appropriately. He opted to send in the military to force a solution — something that many of us didn’t even consider, even if we agree with it now that it has happened. Why is President Trump consistently seeing those simple answers when so many others don’t? I believe it is because even most of us who consider ourselves critical thinkers and natural rebels with our eye on freedom and our ears constantly listening for the sound of approaching tyrants… even we are somewhat propagandized and indoctrinated by a culture that believes you CAN’T do such and such… Because… do you have the authority? Because… what if someone tells you ‘NO’? Because… no one does it that way. Because… won’t you get in trouble for that? Good Lord — what a nation of slave-minded thinkers we have become, when the most simple and basic solutions often elude us simply because we dismiss them before the thought can even take shape all “because” of our ingrained excuse matrix. Thankfully, with adequate sleep and enough coffee, we can change. I read the other day that President Trump only needs 4-5 hours of sleep a night and drinks something like a dozen Diet Cokes a day.  I wonder if that’s HIS secret… At any rate, I am thankful to have a President on the heels of Biden’s administration that not only doesn’t require constant help remembering where he is, but is actually focused and present in a way that even most of us who are younger than him could aspire towards! And I’m sorry for the poor little fish that may or may not come to harm as President Trump forces the California officials to let him fix the water problem, in spite of their incompetence and ingratitude. But enough is enough.  It’s time to fix the water problem.  And if the smelt goes the way of all the earth — ashes to ashes, dust to dust — then so be it. And I’m sure the California democrats in charge will be able to find some new object to adore at the expense of their human subjects, if that little fish kicks the bucket permanently because the logical, rational, and prudent thing finally won out. I’m sure their gaze won’t fall on unborn babies upon which to place their irrational attachment; that would be far too rational. But… they’ll find something.  And you can bet it won’t make a lick of sense, either.