Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s speech at a Turning Point USA event was heavy with references to Iran.
He repeated assurances that a deal was close, that Iran would give up their uranium, that the regime had agreed to not pursue a nuclear bomb.
He also again castigated NATO partners as “useless” for not offering aid, while also boasting the US had needed none.
Then his remarks took a turn at once unexpected and familiar.
“Very soon this great strength will also bring about a day, 70 years in waiting. It’s called A New Dawn for Cuba,” Trump said.
“We’re going to help them out with Cuba. We have a lot of great Cuban Americans, not too many people in this audience, I don’t think, but you go to Miami, we have people, Cuban Americans, people that were brutally treated, whose families were killed and brutalized, and now watch what happens.”
Trump has frequently mentioned Cuba as a potential target for US intervention.
The US kidnapping of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro stymied the flow of oil from that country to Havana, which heavily relied on those imports for essential power.