Trump is asked about Cuba in an interview with conservative political commentator Hugh Hewitt. The question is whether he would order military intervention “if necessary to liberate Cuba” before his term ends.
I want to get Cuba done before I leave, yes, Trump replies.
The president singles out Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban descent, as the right person to handle it.
Trump describes Cuba’s communist one-party state as a failed state. His government has tightened a years-long blockade of the island nation by stopping all fuel imports.
“So if it took a little military, a week of effort, would you be okay with that?” the interviewer asks, and Trump replies:
I would. I would absolutely consider it, yes.
What do you think?