Colombia did an about-face at lightning-fast speed on accepting deportation flights in what President Donald Trump hailed as a victory for his "f--- around and find out" [FAFO] style of governing.

A deportation arrangement with Colombia that the White House presented as a total victory for Donald Trump looks less clear two days later.The migrants the US tried to deport by US military flights on Sunday started traveling home on Monday on a Colombian air force plane,

President Donald Trump has already forced Colombia to accept deportees by threatening tariffs and is readying the same move against Canada and Mexico as soon as Saturday.

In his first week back in the Oval Office, Trump has quickly torn up his predecessor’s alliance-driven foreign policy in favor of an even more rambunctious 2.0 version of “America First.” His provocations have raised tensions with key allies on multiple continents — and set up showdowns with other leaders that,

At this pace, the newly inaugurated Republican president should be able to alienate just about every other country on the planet by, say, mid-summer.

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Trump had threated to impose 25% tariffs on all imports from Colombia, which would rise to 50% in a week, unless it agreed to accept deported migrants.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro ended their public tit for tat that began when military planes with migrants were blocked, a disagreement that veered into tariff threats on both sides.

Colombia stopped resisting President Donald Trump’s deportation of its unwanted nationals. But America First bullying may yet provoke a backlash. The row casts a pall over the first trip abroad by Marco Rubio,

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump’s tariff orders and sanctions would be “held in reserve and not signed” on Jan. 26, as long as Colombian migrants returned to their country. However, visa restrictions on Colombian officials and enhanced inspections would remain in place until Colombian deportees were returned.

President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to house deported migrants—following an escalation across the country in recent days as part of what Trump has promised would be the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history.