{"id":256417,"date":"2026-05-03T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:38:22","slug":"trump-teases-us-will-be-taking-over-cuba-almost-immediately-in-florida-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256417\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump teases US will be &#8216;taking over&#8217; Cuba &#8216;almost immediately&#8217; in Florida speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Donald Trump;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Donald Trump<\/a> appeared to joke during remarks at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida Friday that the U.S. would be &#8220;taking over&#8221; Cuba &#8220;almost immediately,&#8221; while recognizing attendees including former Rep. Dan Mica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And he comes from, originally, a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/cuba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Cuba\u2019s got problems;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cuba\u2019s got problems<\/a>. We\u2019ll finish one first. I like to finish a job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-aims-reset-war-powers-clock-controversial-bid-bypass-congress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Trump Aims To Reset War Powers Clock With Controversial Bid To Bypass Congress;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trump Aims To Reset War Powers Clock With Controversial Bid To Bypass Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Trump at the podium\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/645724cf7e0119305d082c9beb588446.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump speaks during an event at The Villages Charter School in Sumterville, Fla., on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump then riffed on a hypothetical show of American force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;On the way back from Iran, we\u2019ll have one of our big \u2014 maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier \u2014 the biggest in the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS\/mvaj7wvj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Read On The Fox News App;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Read On The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We\u2019ll have that come in, stop about 100 yards offshore, and they\u2019ll say, \u2018Thank you very much, we give up.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Original article source: <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-teases-us-taking-over-cuba-almost-immediately-florida-speech\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Trump teases US will be &#039;taking over&#039; Cuba &#039;almost immediately&#039; in Florida speech;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trump teases US will be &#8216;taking over&#8217; Cuba &#8216;almost immediately&#8217; in Florida speech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump appeared to joke during remarks at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1016,409,28,30,29,111342,101685],"class_list":["post-256417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cuba","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-uss-abraham-lincoln-aircraft-carrier","tag-villages-charter-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}