America finally has a President capable of doing more than lying on a beach in Delaware.

Donald Trump has done more for the world in one week than Joe Biden managed in four years.

While Sleepy Joe saw out the final days of his term shuffling about on the sand in the mid-Atlantic, writing lists of family members needing preemptive pardons, Donald Trump was preparing to hit the ground running.

Within hours of taking office Trump began deporting rapists, murderers, child molesters, and drug dealers in a program he appropriately named ‘Return to Sender’. Trump is, if nothing else, a master of branding.

The outcry from celebrities like Selena Gomez, who took time out from sipping the proverbial soy latte to make a protest TikTok video, was immediate.

How could Trump be so cruel as to deport rapists, child molesters, and murderers back to their countries of origin?

Gomez is worth a cool $1.3b and so can afford to indulge fantasies of poor misunderstood Columbian gang members finding sanctuary in the United States where they are magically transformed into upstanding citizens who only commit crimes occasionally.

But the rest of America is tired of being terrorised by people who should never have been in the country to begin with.

Like Gomez, Trump too is a billionaire. Unlike Gomez, Trump doesn’t cry salty leftist tears, he takes decisive action for mum and dad Americans.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro decided to assert himself against Trump. He might as well have spat into a hurricane.

Petro, a former member of the M19 armed guerilla movement, thundered that plane loads of illegals being returned to Columbia would not be allowed to land.

He called Trump a ‘white slaver’ which, let’s be honest, made him sound less like a Colombian President and more like an Ivy League university president. But I digress.

That kind of stunt would have worked on Joe Biden. Joe Biden would have recoiled at being called white or a slaver. He would have required a nap, a week on the beach, and very specific instructions from Barack Obama (issued from the shadows, of course) to know how to respond.

And even then, he would have misread the autocue.

Not Trump.

Trump took 30 seconds to compose a response which was immediately posted on his socials for Petro and the world to take note.

If Petro refused to take back his citizens – or as the Democrats love to call them, ‘Dreamers’ – tariffs would be immediately applied to Colombian goods.

Trump is a businessman, after all. He knows how to hit them where it hurts.

Moreover, Trump promised that members of the Colombian government and their families would be denied visas to the United States.

Well faster than you can say Selena Gomez is a Hollywood crybaby of limited talent whose only achievement of note was dating Justin Bieber, the Colombian leader had changed his tune.

That’s a polite way of saying that someone in his socialist outfit was smart enough to tell him to cut the crap.

Within two hours of Trump’s tweet, the Colombian President had reposted a press release from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announcing that, ‘The government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms.’

It was the shortest trade war in history!

So dramatic was the change in attitude that Petro even offered his personal Presidential plane to help pick them up.

The whole episode was a nice reminder, after the past four years, that the US government can, in fact, take action on behalf of the American people.

After being pushed around by terrorists in Yemen and after feigning fear over the much-hyped backlash on the ‘Latin American street’, Trump simply flexed and the tin-pot Colombian ruler quickly fell into line.

It’s almost like America remembered it was a superpower again.

Trump is back. Which means America is back. And that means the Free World is back.

Nations like ours should rejoice. Anti-freedom bullies have been allowed to throw their weight around for too long.

Common sense is reasserting itself. National sovereignty is cool again. The West does not have to be bullied. We should all be glad.

Senator Ralph Babet, United Australia Party