FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 President Donald Trump on Friday used a campaign \u200brally in Florida, where Cuban Americans are a potent voting bloc, to vow to address his concerns about Cuba once the Iran war is settled.<\/p>\n
In a 90-minute speech in Fort Myers, Trump repeated \u200cmore military action against Iran may lie ahead as he tries to address the causes of a spike in oil prices that has put \u2060Republicans on the defensive ahead of the Nov. 3 \u200bmidterm elections.<\/p>\n
With an eye toward the senior Americans \u2060who live in Florida, Trump said he planned to spend $250 million to hire at least 5,000 new nurses in \u200celder care facilities all across \u200cAmerica.<\/p>\n
While the Iran war<\/a> has no end in sight, Trump talked tough about Cuba, part \u2060of a pattern of putting pressure on the communist government there \u2060after ousting the leader of Venezuela early this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump, who won 68% of the Cuban American vote in Florida in the 2024 election, said American naval forces from Iran will stop at Cuba on the way home.<\/p>\n “We’ll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They’ll raise up their hands, and then we’re going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal,” he said.<\/p>\n Secretary \u200cof State Marco Rubio, a former senator from Florida, has been handling \u200bmuch of the Cuba-related policy for Trump.<\/p>\n “To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba \u2014 now is the time,” Rubio said on X<\/a> on Friday, urging those disappointed by Cuba’s government “to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.” His post did not elaborate.<\/p>\n To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba – now is the time. <\/p>\n The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.<\/p>\n