Only in today’s political circus could a far-left former Marxist guerrilla try to rewrite history and give himself credit for someone else’s peace deal. Colombian president Gustavo Petro — yes, the same one who once belonged to the M-19 terrorist group — has now claimed that he and a few sympathetic regimes somehow pressured President Donald Trump into brokering the Gaza cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

Speaking at the European Union’s Global Gateway Forum in Brussels, Petro congratulated himself and “humanity” for teaching Trump to “say no to Israel.” According to Petro’s logic, it wasn’t Trump’s direct diplomacy with Israel, Qatar, and Egypt that achieved the truce — it was the “pressure” of Latin America, Africa, and street protests in Europe. That’s right: chants in Brussels apparently did what years of U.S. foreign policy couldn’t.

Petro’s revisionist fairy tale would be laughable if it weren’t coming from a sitting head of state who cut ties with Israel, accused it of “genocide,” and compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany. Since October 2023, Petro has repeated that line endlessly — calling Gaza a “concentration camp,” then turning his attacks on Trump himself, labeling him an “accomplice to genocide.” He even went so far as to urge U.S. soldiers to disobey their commander-in-chief and join his imaginary “army of humanity.”

Yes, really — the Colombian president told American troops to defy orders and side with him. That stunt earned Petro something other than applause: a revoked U.S. visa. Rather than back down, he doubled down, again demanding Trump’s arrest and blaming “white descendants of slave owners” for not following his coal-export bans to Israel. (Never mind that the coal was used for electricity — including in Gaza itself.)

Petro insists he has “nothing against Jewish people,” which he followed by reminiscing about his time in the M-19 movement and its training ties with pro-Palestinian terrorist groups. Comforting.

Here’s the reality: the Gaza cease-fire was achieved through direct U.S. leadership, strategic diplomacy, and leverage that only President Trump possessed. The idea that Gustavo Petro — who can barely manage Colombia’s own economy — somehow forced the United States and Israel to the table is beyond delusional.

But perhaps the most telling line from Petro’s speech was that Trump “has learned despite his arrogance.” Translation: a man who’s spent his career governing through chaos and socialism now thinks he’s Trump’s moral tutor.

At the end of the day, Petro’s claim says more about the left’s obsession with diminishing Trump’s achievements than it does about foreign policy. The peace deal happened because of American strength, not Colombian posturing. And no amount of self-congratulation from a Marxist with a megaphone is going to change that.