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U.S. President Donald Trump predicted the fall of the Cuban regime on Monday, Nov. 9. “I would imagine it will fall fairly soon,” he told reporters at the White House, according to video posted by his rapid response account, @RapidResponse47.
In the same exchange, he compared the Cuban government’s ideology to that of the Democratic Party, his rivals in Washington:
“Cuba is falling. It’s a failing nation. It’s got an ideology very similar to what the Democrat ideology is,” Trump said.
The president did not say what might bring about political change in Cuba, and he announced no new measures against Havana.
“We’ll see what happens. Cuba is going to be interesting. I would imagine it will fall fairly soon,” he added.
Trump also spoke about Cuban Americans. He said they had been treated badly and that 94% of them voted for him, a figure he did not back up. He added that Washington is already sending humanitarian help to people on the island.
Shortly afterward, Rep. Carlos Giménez, a Cuban American Republican from Florida, shared the clip on X:
“President Trump promised to finish the job in Cuba & we are closer than ever!” he wrote.
Trump first predicted the fall of the Cuban regime in March
The forecast is not new. In March, Trump told CNN that Cuba “is going to fall pretty soon,” and he has returned to the idea at several public events since then.
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Rubio in Paris: the Cuban regime is “afraid” of freedom
Also on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke about Cuba at a press conference in Paris, where he traveled for a meeting of G7 foreign ministers. The State Department published the transcript.
“The regime there is afraid of giving their people any kind of freedom, economic or otherwise, because they like to control them,” Rubio said.
According to Rubio, Havana allows only enough economic activity to run “like a third-world country.” “That model doesn’t work,” he said, blaming it for pushing millions of Cubans to leave the island, many of them for the United States.
He also accused GAESA, the military-run conglomerate, of “stealing what little they have from the Cuban people.”
And he warned that Cuba’s crisis is now Washington’s problem too:
“And that has to change, because that instability and that failed state that it’s created poses a threat to the national security and national interest of the United States,” he said.
Rubio noted that the embargo is written into law and can only be lifted if there is political freedom in Cuba. “Our goal is for Cuba to have a better future,” he said, adding that the United States is “going to do everything we can to help put it on that path.”
Trump again joked about parachuting Rubio into Cuba
Monday’s prediction came three days after Trump again joked about dropping Rubio into Cuba by parachute to sort out the situation there. He made the remark on Friday, Nov. 6, at a CPAC event at Mar-a-Lago, his club in Palm Beach, Florida.
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