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Trump suggests a ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba amid US fuel blockade

A sitting president publicly floated a US “takeover” of a neighboring country, stretching executive power toward regime-change politics without clear congressional authorization or democratic legitimacy.

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Sources

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/27/trump-suggests-a-friendly-takeover-of-cuba-amid-us-fuel-blockade

Summary

President Donald Trump said the United States could “very well” have a “friendly takeover” of Cuba. He described an executive-led push for regime change using economic and diplomatic pressure, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio leading the effort. The practical consequence is the normalization of US-directed political transfer as a stated objective of American policy toward a neighboring state.

Reality Check

Normalizing presidential talk of “takeovers” trains our institutions to treat foreign regime change as a casual executive preference rather than a constrained, accountable national decision. When the White House frames coercive economic pressure as a pathway to political transfer, it shifts power away from Congress’s war-and-peace responsibilities and weakens expectations of lawful, transparent statecraft. Over time, this posture corrodes the guardrails that separate diplomacy from domination and conditions the public to accept unilateral executive action as the default.

Detail

On Friday on the White House lawn, as he prepared to board Marine One for a trip to Texas, President Donald Trump answered reporters’ questions about relations with Iran and Cuba.

Trump said the Cuban government was “talking with us” and suggested the United States “could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.” He framed the prospect as “very positive” for people he said were “expelled or worse.”

Trump said he has been pushing for regime change in Cuba over the last two months through economic and diplomatic pressure. He described Cuba as “a failing nation” and said it was in “deep trouble,” asserting it lacks money, oil, and food and “want our help.”

Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is handling the effort “at a very high level.”