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Trump says he wants to ‘get Cuba done’ when asked about use of military force
NBC News ^ | 11/13/2026 | By Rebecca Shabad, Megan Shannon and Caroline Kenny

Posted on 11/13/2026 12:52:40 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

The president said earlier this week that he imagines the communist government will “fall fairly soon.”

President Donald Trump signaled in a new interview that he could take military action to topple Cuba’s communist government before he leaves office.

“I want to get Cuba done before I leave you,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday when asked if he would order the use of military force against Cuba to free the nation.

Trump said his administration is “watching it very closely” and Cuba is “doing very poorly,” calling it a “failed” country.

The president said he would “certainly consider” taking military action against Cuba.

“Frankly, I’d love to be able to do it for the people, for the Cubans that came and were treated really badly, and they came to America,” he said.

Speaking about the Cuban government during an impromptu White House news conference Monday, Trump said, “I would imagine it will fall fairly soon.” At a Conservative Political Action Conference event at Mar-a-Lago last week, he said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is “going to work on Cuba” and joked “we’re going to drop him by parachute into Cuba.”

Trump made similar comments about Rubio during a campaign rally in Texas in late October, saying, “We’ll drop him in the middle of Cuba. He’ll solve that problem in about two minutes. No, Cuba’s coming our way, just like everything else is coming our way because we are a respected country again.”

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 2026accomplice; cuba; frtraitorslist; irresponsibletroll; lookwholovescastro; responsibilitylast

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1 posted on 11/13/2026 12:52:40 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
Can we at least finish one war before starting another?

2 posted on 11/13/2026 12:53:45 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Keep the blockade of Uranian petroleum exports going and AIRTIGHT.


3 posted on 11/13/2026 12:54:52 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Responsibility2nd; lightman; Navy Patriot

Uh-oh! We came close to nuclear war over such a move in 1962!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis


4 posted on 11/13/2026 12:58:21 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Trump says he wants to ‘get Cuba done’ when asked about use of military force”. Are the Russin’s again there Trump with nukes?


5 posted on 11/13/2026 1:00:58 PM PST by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: kawhill

I’m not defending this. Nope. Trump needs to keep his mouth shut, resign, or both.


6 posted on 11/13/2026 1:56:46 PM PST by Fai Mao (Burn it down. Burn it to the ground. Burn the ground.)
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To: Fai Mao

It starts with Rubio shooting off his mouth to get them to revolt using their own language. He leads-will they follow? I’d like to see this come to a head the way the foam overflows when a Guinness draft is poured-it’s too much.

Timing-should it be the election summer of ‘28 or what if there are big protests beforehand? Military is not the way to do it. It would be a punch in the gut to the left-that’s good but it gets old. We gotta let the locals get the credit for overthrowing the tyranny rather than the gringo military.


7 posted on 11/13/2026 2:15:21 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Fai Mao

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”

10 million new welfare recipients...
But they will vote for whoever gives them freedom; Machiavelli says otherwise.
“”It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.”

Ben Franklin, too: A person who has been denied the power of choice and kept in poverty under a master may struggle to adjust to civil liberty, writing that without “solicitous care,” sudden freedom “may often prove a misfortune to himself, and prejudicial to society.”

IIRC, some old Greek, compared it to releasing a chained wild dog, you will get bit...

And how is that Venezuela thing going?


8 posted on 11/13/2026 5:32:47 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last mes)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Rubio’s setting himself up for the GOP 28 nomination. This on top of his great victory in Iran. /s


9 posted on 11/13/2026 10:35:08 PM PST by taxesareforever (is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Can we at least finish one war before starting another?

Why are asking now? These fires have been left burning for decades. The Administration is showing how to put them out!

10 posted on 11/14/2026 3:09:21 AM PST by Theophilus (Boots on the THROAT! COVFEFE!)
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