It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance.

Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.”

Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine.

Colombia received an estimated $230 million in the U.S. budget year that ended Sept. 30. Meanwhile, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has announced the latest U.S. strike on a vessel that was allegedly carrying “substantial amounts of narcotics."