US President urges Cuba to surrender friendly way
Donald Trump, President of the US (photo: Getty Images)
American leader Donald Trump stated that Cuba has two options for the development of events - either it agrees to a friendly takeover, or it will be unfriendly, although that doesn't matter, according to a White House broadcast.
Initially, the conversation with a journalist turned to why the US President trusts Secretary of State Marco Rubio so much on the Cuban issue, as he is conducting negotiations with Havana.
Trump replied that Rubio is one of the best US Secretaries of State in history, so he deserves trust, especially since he speaks Spanish, which is the main language in Cuba.
Regarding Washington's plans for the island, the American leader made it unequivocally clear: either Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel and his regime agree to surrender nicely, or they don't — in Trump's opinion, it doesn't matter, because the US will establish control over it anyway.
"It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn't matter because they're really in, they're down to, as they say, fumes. They have no energy. They have no money. They're in deep trouble on a humanitarian basis," the head of the White House told the journalist.
He also stated that the US does not want to see this — Cuba, which finds itself in a pitiful state, because Trump severed its connection with Venezuela, and as a result, the flow of money to it from Caracas stopped.
"As you know, and a lot of people living our the Cuban-American vote, which I got at record levels. Very important. Those people are very important to me. I know I know what they went through. They went through hell," the US leader summarized.
Towards the end, he noted that many Cuban citizens — successful people, businessmen — are his friends. At the conclusion of the dialogue, Trump repeated the message once more: either Cuba agrees to surrender nicely, or Washington will take control of it anyway.
Trump's plans for Cuba
Shortly after the successful US operation in Venezuela earlier this year, Trump began talking about desired American control over many territories: Colombia, Greenland, Mexico, and Cuba in particular.
The US President also ended the island's cooperation with Venezuela — oil supplies and much else. Now, according to him, the island is in a pitiful state.
Trump also stated on March 6 that Havana actually very much wants to make a deal with the US. In that same conversation, he predicted that Cuba would soon fall, and it fell into his hands.
