President Donald Trump, while hosting Inter Miami at the White House on Thursday, suggested a deal may be imminent with Cuba, but that he’s focusing on Iran in the meantime.
Soccer superstar Lionel Messi joined his MLS team to celebrate the 2025 Major League Soccer Championship, along with managing owner Jorge Mas.
The event turned political at times with Trump addressing the war with Iran, the situation in Venezuela, a possible future announcement regarding Cuba and even tariffs.
“You’re gonna go back,” Trump said to Mas, who is of Cuban descent. He added, “That’s going to be a great day, right?”
Without providing details, Trump added, “We’re going to celebrate that separately. I just want to wait a couple of weeks. I want him to wait a couple of weeks. But we’ll be together again soon, I suspect, celebrating what’s going on in Cuba.”
He added of the island’s communist government, “They want to make a deal so badly. You have no idea.”
Then, referring to Marco Rubio, the president said the secretary of state wants to work on Cuba but is cautious to do so amid the war in Iran.
“Your next one’s is going to be — we want to do that special — Cuba,” Trump said. “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.”