CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings said that President Donald Trump’s actions on illegal immigration and his threat of tariffs on Colombia showed that we have entered the “F around and find out” phase of the new administration.

“Well, number one, the reason Donald Trump had to resort to these tariffs and sanctions and punishments today is because the president of Colombia refused to accept a flight of migrants. He said he wouldn’t take them. Donald Trump said we’re going to enter the F around and find out portion of this conversation. And he hit him with sanctions and tariffs,” he said during a panel discussion on Monday.

“So now tonight the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, says Congress is going to back him up on that. He’s putting Colombia, he’s putting the rest of this hemisphere on notice that you are not dealing with the same president that you were. You’re dealing with someone who is taking illegal immigration seriously. Now, within an hour of making that threat, the president of Colombia said, whoa, whoa, whoa, I’ll send my own plane to pick these people up. So obviously, he got their attention,” the commentator added.

“I don’t think there’s actually going to be any tariff war between the United States and Colombia, because as long as they come get their people, I doubt Donald Trump is going to end up tariffing them and they won’t tariff us, and they’ll have learned a valuable lesson that Donald Trump is taking immigration, illegal immigration, seriously,” Jennings continued. “This is real leadership. But it sends a message to everybody else in the hemisphere, do not test us. This is not Biden and Harris. This is Trump and Vance. We mean business.

“And, you know, it happened under Barack Obama, actually. He deported millions upon millions of people. And I don’t have any recollection of the U.S. economy collapsing and no Republican, and I don’t think most Americans are taking seriously the argument that the U.S. economy is underpinned by violent, criminal, illegal immigrants,” Jennings explained further.

“I mean, if our entire economy is underpinned by people who are rapists and murderers and commit other violent acts, then, you know, we’ve got a whole other set of issues going on in the economy,” he said.