President Trump vowed to launch a trade war with Colombia and impose an “emergency 25% tariff” on Sunday after the South American country turned back two US military deportation flights. 

“I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia,” Trump wrote Sunday.

“This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people,” he said, adding that Petro’s decision has “jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States.”

In response, Trump said he would enact the “emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States” — and claimed he’d raise it to 50% in a week.

He also called for a travel ban, visa revocations on Colombian government officials, visa sanctions on party members and government supporters, enhanced customs and border protection inspections of any Colombian national and banking and financial sanctions.

“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump said. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States!”

The angry post came after Petro blocked the jets’ arrival and said he wouldn’t accept any deportation flights until the Trump administration used civilian planes and created better protocols for how it treats deportees.

“A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves,” Petro said. “That is why I returned the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants.”

And though Colombian migrants can’t stay in a country that doesn’t want them, they must be returned “with dignity and respect for them and for our country,” he said.

“We will receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals.”

Trump’s threatened sanctions and tariffs were enough to get Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, to cut a deal — albeit not without taking to social media to complain and bash the president in a bizarre socialist rant. 

“You don’t like our freedom, fine,” Petro posted in the rant directed at Trump on X. “I do not shake hands with white enslavers.”

Still, he offered the country’s presidential aircraft — a converted Boeing 737-700 — to move deported migrants. This, he said, would guarantee them “dignified conditions.”

“The Government of Colombia, under the direction of President Gustavo Petro, has arranged the presidential plane to facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots who were going to arrive in the country today in the morning, coming from deportation flights,” a translated official statement read in part.

In response, the Trump administration announced it will not impose sanctions and tariffs so long as Colombia follows through with its part of the deal, according to a statement from the White House press secretary late Sunday.

The visa sanctions issued by the State Department and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, however, 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 press secretary added.

The clash comes days after Mexico refused a similar request to let a US military aircraft laden with migrants land on its soil.

Trump didn’t threaten immediate tariffs against America’s largest trading partner but he has said he’s contemplating 25% levies on both Mexican and Canadian goods starting Feb. 1 to force those countries to stem the flow of immigrants and fentanyl pouring into the US.

Colombia — the United States’ third-largest trading partner in Latin America — had responded to Trump’s tariff threat by declaring it would impose a 50% tariff on American goods.

The US had a trade surplus with Colombia of about $3.5 billion in 2022 — however, it does rely on the nation for its most famous legal export. About 27% of US coffee is imported from Colombia, according to the US Department of Agriculture.  

The United States sent 475 deportation flights to Colombia between 2020 and 2024, the fifth-highest behind Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador, according to Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data.

The nation accepted 124 of those flights last year alone.

Colombians have flooded the US-Mexican border over the last few years, in part because a visa regime lets them fly directly to Mexico instead of trekking through the treacherous Darien Gap, a remote swath of mountains and jungle that links Central and South America.

During a 12-month period ending in September, 127,604 Colombians crossed into the US illegally — putting them fourth behind Mexicans, Guatemalans and Venezuelans.

Petro also said there are 15,660 Americans in Colombia illegally, but he’d never carry out Trump-like raids.

“We are the opposite of the Nazis,” he wrote.

With Post wires