Trump also threatened military action in Colombia and Mexico and said Cuba’s Communist regime “looks like it's ready to fall” on its own.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia's government, telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me" and prompting an angry response from Bogota.
"Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the US, and he's not going to be doing it very long," Trump told reporters in a reference to Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. He warned of another strike if Venezuela does not cooperate with the US.
He also threatened military action in Colombia and Mexico and said Cuba’s Communist regime “looks like it's ready to fall” on its own. On Greenland, Trump said said he will revisit the topic in a few weeks. On Sunday, he said other countries may be subject to American intervention. “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” he said.
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday that she believes Trump is serious about wanting to take over Greenland, and that both Denmark and Greenland have clearly rejected his ambition. "Unfortunately, I think the American president should be taken seriously when he says he wants Greenland," Frederiksen told public broadcaster DR. "I have made it very clear where the Kingdom of Denmark stands, and Greenland has repeatedly said that it does not want to be part of the United States," she added.
Colombia rejected Trump's comments as an unacceptable threat against an elected leader. "It represents an undue interference in the internal affairs of the country, against the norms of international law," the foreign ministry said in a statement late on Sunday.
The comments came after the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a raid early on Saturday and whisked him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges
