Keep Track
Keeping Track of the 2nd Trump administration!
One thing Donald Trump and the extreme right were very good at doing is burying the track record of his first presidency from 2017 to 2021.
Keep Track is dedicated to literally keeping track, day by day, of the policy decisions made by the new Trump Administration.
That is not to say we're interested in the crazy things he says or tweets, he clocked over 30,000 lies the last time he was in office, I don't see how it's possible to track all of that. This is about POLICY. Nominees, executive orders, signed laws, and so on.
Subject line format should be {{date}} {{event}} so: "01-20-2025 - Trump is sworn in."
The international date format of 2025-01-20 is also acceptable!
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Why is this propaganda piece being repeated all over Lemmy? It's an opinion piece praising Trump and pushing his strong man narrative, it doesn't contain actual news. Colombia demanded a humane treatment of their citizens. That was always the core of the scuffle. They never refused to welcome their own citizens in their own country. No country would do that.
The tariff threats did nothing. If you read Petro's statements it's clear what and why Colombia did the things it did in this matter. And none of them were out of fear of tariffs or being bullied by Trump. The military planes did return to the US and Petro sent the presidential airplane to get those people. If anything Colombia diplomatically humiliated Trump by forcing him to treat Colombian citizens as regular people and not criminals.
I have now seen two or three accounts having this exact same wording and narrative repeated on a couple of posts about this here on lemmy. They repeat either word for word the same conversation or use similar phrasing.
Reality seems to counter what you're saying, from the article linked above, first two paragraphs even:
"The US will not go ahead with tariffs on Colombia, after Bogota agreed to accept - without restrictions - deported migrants, the White House says.
Donald Trump had ordered 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods after its president barred two US military deportation flights from landing in the country on Sunday."
Keywords to determine the credibility of this narrative: "the white house says".
It might be true, it might be false, but until the other party or an independent source with some actual credibility confirms it, we don't know. It's just more noise from Trump's white house.
You're misreading the quote, flip it around:
"The White House says the US will not go ahead with tariffs on Colombia, after Bogota agreed to accept - without restrictions - deported migrants."
They aren't saying Bogota made the agreement without restrictions, they are saying they aren't going ahead with the tariffs. Maybe the excuse they're giving is bullshit, but if they said they were doing it and now they say they're not, that's likely true until the NEXT time they decide to reverse themselves (3-2-1...!)
Now, if Bogota had not agreed to the flights, with or without restrictions, why would they call off the tariffs?
There's countless reasons why they could have called off a tariff war, not least of which is that Colombia has a trade deficit with the usa, which would make a tariff war a very dumb idea for the USA.
This is all just classic Trump:
Make some dumb threats. Others explain to Trump how it will personally harm him somehow (otherwise he wouldn't care). Cancel the threats and declare victory. The other party shrugs, but keeps silent to avoid harming Trump's fragile ego.
Yeah, what else does the White House say that you believe?
When the people who told you they would impose tariffs tell you they are no longer going to impose tariffs, what else are you supposed to believe? They are the source of truth on that.
That the threatener caved.