President Donald Trump speaks at an event celebrating the 2025 MLS Cup champion team, Inter Miami CF, in the East Room of the White House on March 5, 2026.
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President Donald Trump signaled Thursday that his administration would shift its sights to Cuba after the U.S. military operation in Iran ends.
President Trump participated in a visit to 2025 Major League Soccer champion Inter Miami CF and said at the White House, “What’s happening in Cuba is amazing.”
“We want to solve the problem. We want to end this problem first, but it’s only a matter of time,” Trump told a large audience in Miami, which included people of Cuban descent.
These comments indicate that President Trump is considering another major foreign policy move less than a week after the escalation of military conflict in the Middle East.
“We want you to come back and we don’t want to lose you. We don’t want the situation to be so good that they stay. But there are probably some who want to stay. They love Cuba very much,” he said. “It was something that wasn’t supposed to happen again.”
After providing a proud update on the Iran war, President Trump shifted his focus to Cuba, saying the U.S. and Israeli forces continue to “completely destroy our enemy.”
President Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is “doing a great job.”
“And you’ve done a great job in a place called Cuba,” Trump added, to applause from the audience.
President Trump’s recent comments about Cuba echo previous hints (some more subtle than others) that he and his allies have divulged plans for the Caribbean island nation.
“Cuba is next,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) said on Fox News Sunday after the attack on Iran began.
In an interview with Politico earlier Thursday, President Trump predicted that after the Iranian regime collapses, “Cuba will collapse as well.”
Trump also claimed credit for squeezing Cuba’s economy to bring Cuba to the negotiating table after the U.S. military attacked Venezuela, Cuba’s main oil supplier, in January.
“We cut off all the oil, all the money, or we cut off everything coming in from Venezuela, which is our only source. And they want a deal,” he told Politico.
President Trump also said in the interview, “We are talking to Cuba.” “How much have you heard about Cuba, Cuba, Cuba in 50 years?” he added. “That’s one of the little things for me.”
