Trump Just Floored Cuba with "Friendly Takeover" Talk, Then Marco Rubio Moved Fast in Miami

Ten million people sat in the dark while Donald Trump cracked a grin and said Cuba is next, by the way. But pretend I didn't say that, please. That line hit Havana like a siren because the communist racket knows exactly what the blackout means. It wasn't weather. It wasn't bad luck. Cuba's entire electric grid collapsed again. The island is broke, blacked out, and cornered. Miguel Diaz-Canel started ranting about dying for the revolution down to the last drop of blood. Beijing sprinted in to shield the regime. And Trump? Well, he kept talking like a man who already sees the endgame. You wait until you hear who suddenly wants to negotiate. This matters because Cuba is not some abstract Cold War museum piece. It sits 90 miles from Florida, pumps anti-American poison into this hemisphere, and for decades the Castro machine trained radicals, sold repression as romance, and survived on subsidies, lies and fear. Now the mask just slipped. An island-wide blackout hammered roughly 10 million people. Hospitals got hit. Critical services got hit. And the regime still tried the oldest communist scam on earth. Blame America before blaming communism. Bloomberg pushed the line out about de facto U.S. oil blockade. China Daily Mao-Ning barked that America must stop pressure on Cuba. Good, let them bark. The blackouts came from crumbling infrastructure, empty coffers, and a dictatorship that cannibalized its own future. And here's the hemispheric stake. When Trump projects strength, hostile regimes stop bluffing and start folding. We saw it in our Iran coverage. We called this on June 23rd in our Cuba segment, and now Marco Rubio is torching Cuban influence operations right here at home while Havana panics abroad. No bailout. No rescue mission for communists. It's time to finish the break. And when a regime leaves 10 million people in the dark, you remember how every bureaucracy survives. Confusion. 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It told you he knew the media would explode and he said it anyway, but the line I want you to keep in your head before I roll the tweets is even sharper. Trump said taking Cuba could be a friendly takeover. Friendly for whom? Not for the cashier machine. Cuba's president says Cuba isn't afraid of a U.S. attack and is getting ready. But do you believe they are going to use force and an attack is imminent? If there is an attack, the Cuban people will respond in unity, firmness, and in defense of our sovereignty. We don't want a war, but we are not afraid of it. And we are getting ready so that we are not surprised or defeated. And we can talk about how you are getting ready in a moment, but we have seen a military buildup off your coast. When Donald Trump has threatened Venezuela, for example, he has acted. When he has threatened Iran, he has acted. I know you are saying that me asking whether an attack being imminent is hypothetical, but we have seen in the past when he has said something, he has done it. Are you taking what he is saying seriously when he says we can take Cuba? We need to move away from confrontation for the sake of both our peoples. I think that the American people, for which we are respectful, and the Cuban people can have a wonderful relationship as very good neighbors because we are very close to each other. I, like many other million Cubans, am willing to give our lives for the revolution. And we are willing to fight to the very last drop of blood in order to defend our rights, our independence, our sovereignty, and our achievement. So Cuba's regime is talking tough, promising to fight the revolution to the last drop. Next, Beijing jumps in with China's foreign ministry demanding the U.S. back off Cuba immediately. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning made the remarks at a regular press briefing following reports that Cuba has requested the United Nations General Assembly to convene a special session on the U.S. blockade against Cuba. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel recently warned that U.S. embargo against Cuba has reached a threshold level, amounted to genocide, and requested a special session at the U.N. General Assembly on July 7. What is China's comment? The U.S.'s 60-plus years of full blockage and illicit sanctions have brought profound sufferings to the Cuban people. Recently, the U.S. once again upgraded relevant blockage and sanction measures, hitting hard at the basic livelihood of the Cuban people and raising grave concern from the international community. China, as always, opposes illicit unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law, and we urge the U.S. to stop its blockage, coercion, and pressure against Cuba at once, and stop violating the Cuban people's rights to survival and development. China firmly supports Cuba in defending national sovereignty and standing against external interference. We stand ready to work with the rest of the world to uphold international fairness and justice. So now you've got Havana rattling sabers, China running diplomatic cover, while the communist posture of the island's crumbling fast Bloomberg reports Cuba's entire electric grid has just collapsed. Cuba's electric grid suffered a total collapse Monday as the nation struggles with crumbling infrastructure and a de facto U.S. oil blockade that has pushed the communist-run island to the brink. So the collapse isn't some abstract policy fight, it's a full-blown system failure. Fox lays out just how massive the blackout is. Ten million people hit, hospitals caught in the middle. This just in, breaking moments ago, Cuba has suffered an island-wide blackout. This is happening as its fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble. They say the cause is under investigation. This is the second blackout this year. The country relies on getting 60 percent of its oil from outside of the country. Cuba only produces, I believe, about 40 percent of the fuel that it needs. You're talking about 10 million people affected by this. It's obviously affecting the hospitals there and the lives of so many. So we're going to continue monitoring that developing story. With the grid down and fuel running dry, Cuba looks weaker by the hour. That's when Trump steps in and says he believes he'll have the honor of taking Cuba. Great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change. They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. But I think Cuba's seen the end. All my life I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it? I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba. Taking Cuba. In some form, yeah. Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth. They're a very weakened nation right now. They were for a long time. Very violent, very violent leaders. So Trump didn't stop at calling Cuba weak. Next week he goes even further, saying the regime is talking with the U.S. and a friendly takeover could be on the table. The Cuban government is talking with us. They're in a big deal of trouble. They have no money. They have no anything right now. But they're talking with us. And maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba. So first, it was a possible takeover. Then Trump sharpened it, saying Cuba is the next one, but not before adding a little jab at the media. I don't see him around anymore. I don't see him. He's doing some job and your next one is going to be. We want to do that special. Cuba, he's waiting. But he says, let's get this one finished first. We could do them all at the same time. But bad things happen. If you watch countries over the years, you do them all too fast. Bad things happen. We're not going to let anything bad happen to this country. So Trump's warning kept building from there. Next, aboard Air Force One, he says flat out Cuba is ready to fall. One of the things that is happening, I think you see it. You see it all the time, Howard. You've seen it, that Cuba is ready to fall. Yes. Cuba looks like it's ready to fall. I don't know how they do all of their income from Venezuela. The Venezuelan oil, they're not getting any literally is ready to fall. And great Cuban Americans are going to be very happy about this. So after saying Cuba is ready to fall, Trump goes one step further. He says Cuba is next because I campaigned on the fact piece with strength you wouldn't have to you I said you'll never have to use it but something is it and cube is next by the way but pretend I didn't say that please pretend I did please please please media please disregard that statement thank you very much I cube is next because usual media class love to play dumb when Trump says exactly what he means the next item straight fact-check confirming the date and quote in the context yes Trump says Cuba is next by the way pretend I didn't say that because the usual media class loves to play dumb when Trump says what he means yes President Trump said exactly that on March 27th 2026 in the future investment initiative form in Miami while discussing US military actions in Venezuela and Iran he stated Cuba's next by the way but pretend I didn't say that multiple outlets including Reuters Fox and the Hill reported it with video clips the memes why list is a common online theory linking interventions to central banking but Trump's remark was in the context of ongoing foreign policy shift so yes the quote was real and documented now we turn to the regime itself or a Cuban ambassadors denying that Raul Castro's grandson has any real power Cuba's ambassador denies that El Canegro has the power in the regime Cuba's ambassador to Uruguay Lizette Perez denied that Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro the grandson of Raul Castro plays a political role within the Cuban regime so the denial gets shaky next the report says the grandson is open to negotiating directly with President Trump the grandson of the communist dictator Raul Castro expresses willingness to negotiate with President Trump and any representative according to the USA Today so while regime insiders talk negotiation the crackdown at home is already moving Rubio terminated legal status of a Cuban foreign influence operative operative and federal agents moving in Rubio terminating the legal status of Cuban communist foreign influence operatives who whose network brought Hassan Piker to Cuba federal agents took Carlos Antonio Loga Dominguez and his family into custody pending removal it's been over a decade working for ICAP the Cuban regime's premier intelligence and influence front group in the u.s. ICAP own president is a convicted Cuban spy who did 15 years in the u.s. prison for years they operate in the open cultivating America's far left to export Castro's revolution here that era is officially over so the Miguel Diaz canal gave away the whole game when he started talking about fighting to the very last drop of blood strong governments do not talk like that cornered regimes do collapsing regimes do fraud regimes do the Castro machine is all three so look at the sequence Cuba's grid craters Trump says Cuba is ready to fall Trump says he would have the honor of taking Cuba Trump said it could be a friendly takeover then he drops the blade that Cuba is next Beijing lunges to protect Havana Raul Castro's grandson suddenly open to negotiation Marco Rubio rips a Cuban foreign influence operative out of legal status here in the u.s. it's not random noise there's a communist racket getting squeezed from every side by American strength take the lesson and burn it in communism did not fail in theory it failed on camera it failed in an island-wide blackout it failed in a dictator's desperate promise to spill blood for a revolution that cannot keep the lights on and Donald Trump did not create that collapse he exposed it accelerated the pressure made the whole hemisphere watch Havana wobble that's why the legacy media hate this story they can't stand a foreign policy doctrine that works they can't stand Trump calling the shots then watching the regime buckle on schedule they would rather run cover for Bloomberg's blockade spin China's propaganda and every regime apologist who wants one more lifeline for Castro's errors no lifeline no bailout no face-saving deal for the men who wrecked Cuba and exported that poison north if you know Cuban Americans send them this if you want America back in charge of its hemisphere share this and keep your eyes on Marco Rubio and President Trump the lights go out on communism you don't change the bulb you lock the door and we are unlocking the door to the missed notifications that I've read you guys aren't receiving in the comment section that's right we set up this special number just for you and thousands and thousands of Patriots are already taking advantage of it I want to make sure you do to text the words Rafi to 844 840 4963 and make sure you get the notifications from me when YouTube fails you and celebrate the wins with the next news network by going to the merch shelf below this video or shop next news network.com the system controls information information control is power they don't want you to see this truth only survives together they don't want this shared share this now