BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Sunday rejected threats by his US counterpart Donald Trump who also accused him of being a drug trafficker.

“Stop slandering me, Mr. Trump.” Petro said on the social media platform X.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday Trump made similar threats of military action against Colombia, saying the South American country is “very sick, too” and “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”

“He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories and is not going to be doing it very long,” Trump added.