Representative Alexandria Okazio Cortez, DN.Y., Commenting on this President Donald Trump The continuous customs dispute with Colombian President Gustavo Petro – but not all social media users were convinced of their comments.
The dispute between Trump and Petro started when he was the Colombian leader Refuse My journey is deported during the weekend, which prompted Trump to unleash revenge procedures. Both the world's leaders threatened to raise customs duties on imported products by 25 % to 50 %, and Trump ordered the travel ban and the abolition of visas for all Colombian government officials.
“I just informed that Two journeys to return home Trump wrote on Truth Social: “It was not allowed to come from the United States, with a large number of illegal criminals, to land in Colombia. This was released by the Colombian Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already not very popular with his people.”
“Petro's refusal of these flights has endangered the national security and public safety of the United States, so I directed my administration to take urgent and decisive revenge measures immediately.”
AOC gave her her opinion on the dispute between Trump and Petro in the X Publishing on Sunday. (Reuters)
In a post on Sunday, Okasio Cortez insisted that American consumers are the only party that pays customs duties.
“In order to punish Colombia, Trump is about to make every American pay more for coffee.” Remember: We pay customs duties, not Colombia. “
“All Trump wants to make inflation is worse for the Americans than the working class, and not better,” she added. “It fills the pockets of itself and the billionaire layer.”
Petro appears to admire an AOC post, re -posting it on his X's account.
While the definitions have the ability to amplify prices, the importer, the company or entity that brings goods to the United States, will push the actual tariff to the Customs and Protection of the American Border (CBP).
But enlarged prices are not guaranteed – sometimes, customs tariffs can reduce the global price of a commodity with suppliers rushing to maintain access to the large American market. Coffee suppliers in different countries, such as Vietnam and Brazil – that produce larger quantities of coffee compared to Colombia – will reduce or preserve their prices.
Representative Alexandria Okasio Cortez, a democracy of New York State, criticized Trump for the threat of Colombia with customs tariffs. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Imaguz)
Okasio-Cortez's tweet won more than 47,000 admiration from supporters until 8 pm, but contempt for Trump supporters and defenders of customs tariffs.
“A world record number 35 minutes and the tweet is old like hot milk,” Katord wrote on his account on his social networking site.
“Whoever wants to tell her that there are other countries that make coffee, not just Colombia,” wrote Bill Essia in the California Council.
Conservative commentator John Cardilo echoed the feelings of Al -Osaili, noting that the country in South America “must regain its illegal foreigners.”
“Many other countries grow coffee beans. We can buy coffee from them,” Cardilo wrote on X.
Activist Adam Louise responded to Okasio Cortez with insisting that a democratic politician “does not understand how customs definitions work.”
“The price of coffee coming from Colombia will increase, so we will buy coffee from suppliers in other countries who recover illegal immigrants,” the governor's user wrote. “Companies will hesitate to invest in Colombia more if they continue to be bad actors.”
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro offered his special presidential plane for deportations after Trump threatened the country with customs duties and more. (A copy of AP/Fernando Vergara, File)
Fox News Digital has communicated with the OCASIO-Cortez office for an additional comment.
Kyle Schmidabaauer of Fox News Digital channel contributed to preparing this report.
