President Donald Trump will take over Cuba, almost immediately, during lunch in between meetings and phone calls. He’s got time. It’s boring at the White House. King Charles III left Washington, D.C. on April 30 and President Trump will visit President Xi in Beijing on May 14. The Ballroom and Military Bunker are humming right along. Venezuela is taking in flights from Miami and Iran is on the back burner for the moment. It’s not inhumanly hot in Havana yet.

Six weeks ago, our Carol wrote about Trump and the islands in “Trump Talks Cuba and Now We’re All Waiting for the Havana Tower Rendering”. Trump might be thinking about Trump Havana Tower now or he could be thinking about Cubans who will become wealthy from tourism. Neither position would be horrendous.

Is this where Trump’s head is really at OR is this a wild hair the media gets every six weeks? From Townhall:

President Donald Trump says that the U.S. will be taking over Cuba “almost immediately.”

“He comes from a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately. Now, Cuba’s got problems. We’ll finish one first. I like to finish a job. On the way back from Iran, we’ll have one of our big, maybe the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in the word. We’ll have that come in, stop about 100 yards offshore, and they’ll say, ‘Thank you very much. We give up.'”

In April, Trump vowed a “New Dawn for Cuba” at a Phoenix rally.

“We’re going to help them out with Cuba,” he said to the crowd. “We have a lot of great Cuban Americans, not too many in this audience, I don’t think, but you can go to Miami. We have people, Cuban Americans, people who were brutally treated, whose families were killed and brutalized. And now, watch what happens.”

Even before that rally, Trump had hinted at his plans for Cuba for months.

His administration has removed Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, destroyed former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and now, it looks like the Iran conflict might come to an end.

Well, Iran is not exactly coming to an end and the clean up phase is not going to be easy.

President Trump will NOT take over Cuba during lunch in between meetings and phone calls. That is ridiculously oversimplified. It would take a couple of days at least. Easier if they do targeted regime change. Then there would be people there who knew what they were doing.

🇺🇸🇨🇺 The Trump administration is exploring multiple scenarios for a leadership transition in Cuba, but is not yet committed to dismantling the government entirely, Politico reports.

Sources say Washington is discussing options in which some Cuban leadership figures step down,…

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Many people were counting on Maria Machado to take over in Venezuela, but Delcy Rodriguez was a safer bet. Easier to control and less risk of assassination. The Administration should be looking for a similar set up in Cuba. Some not to vicious and violent Communists to help restore life before we leave them on their own. Havana was known as the Paris of the Caribbean before the Castro Brothers took over and it could still be fabulous. Just needs a lot of work.

Yes, the Cuban government CALLED for this march. Trash trucks don’t have enough gas for trash pick up. This didn’t happen under Trump. This is the inevitable fault of Socialism/Communism. Everywhere it is tried.

The Cuban Overlords don’t think the Trumpian Builders will find Cuba that easy to take over, according to Money Control.com:

US President Donald Trump’s threats of military aggression against Cuba have reached a “dangerous and unprecedented level,” Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel said Saturday, calling on the international community to respond.

During a speech in Florida on Friday, Trump said the United States would be “taking over” the Caribbean island “almost immediately.”

“The US president is escalating his threats of military aggression against #Cuba to a dangerous and unprecedented level,” Diaz-Canel wrote in a post on X.

He called on the international community to take a stance on whether such a “drastic criminal act will be allowed to satisfy the interests of a small but wealthy and influential group, eager for revenge and domination.”

“No aggressor, however powerful, will find surrender in Cuba,” Diaz-Canel added.

Trump’s comments in Florida, home to the largest Cuban diaspora, were made just hours after he signed an executive order tightening sanctions against the government in Havana and entities that collaborate with it.

Trump has repeatedly mused about taking over Cuba, which lies 145 kilometers (90 miles) from Florida and has been under a nearly continuous US trade embargo since Fidel Castro led a communist revolution on the island in 1959.

Already in the throes of economic stagnation, Cuba’s plight plight deepened when Washington imposed a fuel blockade in January, with only one Russian oil tanker making it through since then.

On Friday, huge crowds marched to the US Embassy in Havana to mark May Day, denouncing threats of aggression from Washington. Diaz-Canel led the march, along with 94-year-old former leader Raul Castro, Fidel’s brother.

At least our leadership is significantly younger than Raoul Castro and Trump is more mental flexible.

Just so you know that the takeover won’t be during lunch between meetings and phone calls.

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