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Trump Team Flubs Press Release on Colombia Tariffs With a Glaring Typo

A certain Ivy League university may or may not have gotten a shout out instead.

There’s a new addition to the Trump administration typo hall of fame. As the president sounded off on Truth Social Sunday and listed a series of retaliatory measures against the country of Colombia for rebuking his deportation efforts, the White House released an accompanying press release that had a glaring error. “ICYMI [In Case You Missed It]: President Donald J. Trump’s TRUTH on Columbia Sanctions,” the statement’s title read, misspelling the country’s name as “Columbia”—the same spelling as a popular sportswear company or the Ivy League university in New York City. Earlier in the day, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he had blocked two deportation flights carrying migrants from landing in the country. His bold move sparked an immediate fury from Trump, who announced he would be imposing an “emergency” 25 percent tariff on all imported goods from Colombia. The move prompted Petro to quickly agree to send his presidential plane for repatriation efforts—though he later announced that he had also instructed Colombia’s foreign trade minister to impose a rival 25 percent tariff on imports from the U.S.