{"id":12440,"date":"2026-05-02T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/02\/trump-jokes-that-us-navy-will-takeover-cuba-on-the-way-back-from-iran-euronews-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:17:02","slug":"trump-jokes-that-us-navy-will-takeover-cuba-on-the-way-back-from-iran-euronews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/02\/trump-jokes-that-us-navy-will-takeover-cuba-on-the-way-back-from-iran-euronews-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump jokes that US Navy will takeover Cuba on the way back from Iran – Euronews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump joked on Friday that his country\u2019s Navy would take on Cuba on the way home from Iran.<\/p>\n

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His comments came as he addressed attendees of an event at the non-profit Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, where he was invited as a keynote speaker.<\/p>\n

Trump said that his military will be \u201ctaking over (Cuba) almost immediately,\u201d raising concerns that the US may be entangled in yet another military conflict this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow Cuba’s got problems. We’ll finish one first. I like to finish a job. On the way back from what we’ll do… on the way back from Iran, we’ll have one of our big, maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier – the biggest in the world, will have that come in. Stop about 100 yards offshore, and they’ll say, ‘thank you very much. We give up’,\u201d added Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump has suggested that military operations in Cuba are on the table for months as his administration continued to attack leadership in Havana following Washington\u2019s stunning intervention in Venezuela in January, which toppled and captured President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n

Trump had accused Cuba of providing security personnel to protect Maduro\u2019s alleged drug-trafficking operations in exchange for money and oil, both of which he had cut off following the 3 January operation.<\/p>\n

The island nation has since been grappling with dire oil shortages which have shut down many sectors across the country and ground national healthcare services to a halt. The UN warned several times that a humanitarian crisis was unfolding in Cuba as a result of the US oil embargoes.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Trump ordered new sanctions against Havana, targeting a broad set of people in the communist-run country and threatening foreign banks that work with them.<\/p>\n

In an executive order, Trump said he would impose sanctions on people involved in sweeping sections of the Cuban economy, which is steered by the government.<\/p>\n

Trump will target people known to “operate in or have operated in the energy, defence and related materiel, metals and mining, financial services, or security sector of the Cuban economy, or any other sector of the Cuban economy” as determined by the US government, the order said.<\/p>\n

It also said it would target Cuban officials judged to have engaged in “serious human rights abuses” or corruption. The people listed will be unable to visit the United States, the order said.<\/p>\n

The fresh sanctions were denounced by Cuba\u2019s Foreign Minister Bruno Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla, who called them a form of \u201ccollective punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe firmly reject the recent unilateral coercive measures adopted by the United States government. These actions demonstrate an intention to impose, once again, collective punishment on the Cuban people,\u201d wrote Parilla in a post on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is no coincidence that these measures were announced on May 1, the very day that millions of Cubans take to the streets to denounce the US blockade and the energy siege.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parilla also slammed the Trump administration for foreign meddling on claims of fighting injustices and protecting democracy, while repressing its own people domestically.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the US government represses its own people in the streets, it seeks to punish ours, who are heroically resisting the US imperialism\u2019s attacks,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese measures are extraterritorial in nature and violate the United Nations Charter. The US has no right whatsoever to impose measures against Cuba or against third countries or entities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House has called on Cuban leaders to engage in talks with Washington for months, warning that they must do so \u201cbefore it is too late\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel has repeatedly rejected to negotiate under what he called hostile terms, arguing that Havana will only engage in talks based on common respect, equal footing and without threat to its sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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