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Miles Archer

(21,825 posts)
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:08 AM 15 hrs ago

Trump assumes Cuba is an avid follower of Truth Social, making it the ideal place to issue a 4 AM warning.

The president, 79, has escalated his threats against several Latin American countries, including Cuba and its leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, following the U.S. invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3.

“Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided “Security Services” for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!” Trump began his post.

“Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last weeks U.S.A. attack, and Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years. Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will.”

He concluded: “THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA - ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-issues-takeover-warning-to-neighboring-country-in-morning-rant/

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Trump assumes Cuba is an avid follower of Truth Social, making it the ideal place to issue a 4 AM warning. (Original Post) Miles Archer 15 hrs ago OP
Impeachment NOW! MineralMan 15 hrs ago #1
"i'm gonna protect 'em whether they want it or not" trump rampartd 15 hrs ago #2
THAT the Cubans will be spared from Vogon_Glory 15 hrs ago #4
your statement is true rampartd 11 hrs ago #10
We're witnessing Trump completely losing his mind in real time. Each successive act is more unhinged sop 15 hrs ago #3
The DICTATOR OF THE WORLD has spoken. spanone 15 hrs ago #5
That's not unhinged at all. Dave Bowman 14 hrs ago #6
The Cuban government surely does have someone monitoring Trump's posts. DavidDvorkin 14 hrs ago #7
Satan please take him now Clouds Passing 14 hrs ago #8
There should be a World Day of Prayer - for Satan to take him back to hell dalton99a 11 hrs ago #11
He needs... 2naSalit 13 hrs ago #9

rampartd

(3,858 posts)
2. "i'm gonna protect 'em whether they want it or not" trump
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:20 AM
15 hrs ago

he wants the shah jr in iran, please don't tell me they have a battista jr for cuba.

Vogon_Glory

(10,200 posts)
4. THAT the Cubans will be spared from
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:44 AM
15 hrs ago

At the end of his rule, most Cubans were tired of Batista’s rule. That’s one of the major reasons Batista’s control of the island collapsed so fast.

No, I suspect what Donnie wants is for some Cuban emigre to be installed as a new Cuban head of state. He’ll probably pick someone from the emigres here in the US.

I suspect that his plan will go off-script very quickly. Cuba is not the place Donnie thinks it is nor is it the place that the Cuban emigres think it is. I may not be a hard-left cheerleader for the Havana government, but I do know that the Cubans have gone their own way for sixty-plus years and they don’t see the US as a liberator or the bright and shiny role model they’ll wish to follow.

I suspect that the imposed new chief of state and his/her lieutenants will be denounced and loathed as puppets and sell-outs.

rampartd

(3,858 posts)
10. your statement is true
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 02:10 PM
11 hrs ago
Cuba is not the place Donnie thinks it is nor is it the place that the Cuban emigres think it is

there are some very fundamental facts that "conservatives" do not want to understand.

sop

(17,492 posts)
3. We're witnessing Trump completely losing his mind in real time. Each successive act is more unhinged
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:24 AM
15 hrs ago

than the last. At some point he has to be stopped if the country is to survive. This cannot continue.

spanone

(141,043 posts)
5. The DICTATOR OF THE WORLD has spoken.
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:48 AM
15 hrs ago

Dear world, please remove this cancer from our politics.

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