Michigan Congresswoman Hillary Scholten is worried about her Valentine’s Day roses.

The second term Democrat representing West Michigan took to X on Sunday to fire insults at Republicans and President Donald Trump over threatened tariffs in response to Socialist Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s refusal to take back deported illegal immigrants.

We knew that this was coming — but as I promised you all, I won’t stop working for our shared beliefs—whether working across the aisle or pushing back against the administration.

That’s what West Michigan deserves.

Keep the faith, and know you have a fighter in me, at home and…

— Hillary Scholten (@HillaryScholten) January 26, 2025

Of course, Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on goods from Colombia convinced Petro to reverse course, suggesting Scholten’s concerns about the president’s strategy for compelling cooperation was overblown.

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“The tariffs that have worried so many of our small business owners are also underway – including a haphazard emergency 25% tariff’ on all imports from Colombia that will be raised to 50% in a week (just in time for Valentine’s Day flowers),” Scholten wrote in a thread that also detailed other grievances with Trump’s governance. “This impulsivity is what rightly worried so many.”

“We knew that this was coming – but as I promised you all, I won’t stop working for our shared beliefs – whether working across the aisle or pushing back against the administration,” the thread, posted shortly after 6 p.m. on Sunday, continued. “That’s what West Michigan deserves. Keep the faith, and know you have a fighter in me, at home and in Washington. We’re only just getting started.”

Petro on Sunday ordered Colombian officials to reject U.S. military planes carrying deportees to Colombia, alleging “the United States must establish a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants before we can accept them.”

“The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,” Petro posted to X. “I deny the entry of American planes carrying Colombian migrants into our territory.”

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The comments, which followed initial approval for landings, prompted an immediate response from Trump, who ordered a 25% tariff on all goods imported from Colombia that he said would rise to 50% after a week.

Trump also imposed visa restrictions, and travel sanctions on officials involved in rejecting deportees, as well as enhanced inspections of flights, private aircraft, and cargo to and from Columbia, Fox News reports.

“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “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 situation provoked U.S. mainstream media outlets like CNBC, NPR and others to weigh in on how the “US-Colombia trade war” might impact imported goods from Colombia, which primarily include a majority of the U.S.’ cut flowers, as well as a fraction of its crude oil, and coffee.

“The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative puts total bilateral trade between the U.S. and Colombia at $53.5 billion annually as of 2022, with the U.S. having a trade surplus of $3.9 billion,” CNBC reports.

Petro initially threatened matching tariffs, before later retreating to offer his presidential plane “to facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots” deported from the U.S., and agreeing to take future flights from the U.S.

“Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo and the ambassador (of Colombia to the United States) Daniel García Peña will travel to the city of Washington in the coming days, to hold high-level meetings, to follow up on the agreements resulting from the joint work that led to the exchange of diplomatic notes between the two governments,” according to a statement from Petro, translated by Google. “We will continue to welcome Colombians and Colombians to return as deportees, guaranteeing them the dignified conditions as citizens subject to rights.”

The White House confirmed in a statement late Sunday that Petro had caved “to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay.”

“Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers Act) tariffs and sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced by inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned,” the statement read.

“Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again,” it continued. “President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.”