🇨🇺🚨 Trump Now Suggesting the US will Steal Cuba and Appoint Marco Rubio as President. I Assure You They Are Not Joking.
He reposted “Marco Rubio will be president of Cuba” and wrote “Sounds good to me.” That’s empire talking.
President Trump just reposted a message saying “Marco Rubio will be president of Cuba,” and he added three words: “Sounds good to me!” According to AFP, this comes as the United States is talking increasingly about areas of the world it will take by force. This isn’t a meme. It’s a warning.
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Now let’s talk plainly about what just happened.
A sitting U.S. President publicly flirted with regime change in Cuba.
Not with a policy paper. Not with a State Department briefing. With a repost and a grin.
And if you’re tempted to shrug it off as “Trump being Trump,” you haven’t been paying attention to what Washington has been doing with power lately.
“Sounds good to me!” is not a joke when America controls the world’s financial oxygen
AFP reports that Trump reposted a message from an X user that read: “Marco Rubio will be president of Cuba,” with a laughing emoji — and Trump replied: “Sounds good to me!” AFP also notes that Rubio was born to Cuban immigrant parents.
That line — “Sounds good to me!” — is not harmless. It is a President testing the public’s tolerance for colonial language, one repost at a time.
Because here’s what people outside the United States understand better than many people inside it:
America doesn’t need to invade a country to dominate it.
America can starve economies, freeze assets, block trade, and punish third parties for doing business with you — and it can do it so thoroughly that you become a pariah in the global economy.
That’s not rhetoric. That’s how U.S. sanctions actually work.
When the U.S. government designates you — a country, an institution, a company, a person — banks stop touching you. Payment processors back away. Shipping insurers get nervous. Deals collapse. Employers fire people because payroll becomes impossible. Families lose accounts. People can’t move money. Entire economies start gasping for air.
And because the United States is so deeply tied into global finance, its sanctions aren’t just American. They become international by force.
This is why a “joke” about Rubio ruling Cuba is not a joke.
It is a signal: we can ruin you, and then we can “replace” you.
The pattern is the story
This isn’t happening in a vacuum.
A week ago, the world woke up to reports of U.S. force against Venezuela’s government — and now Trump is publicly describing long-term American control of Venezuela as if it’s normal. Europe is watching American threats toward Greenland and openly warning that it could collapse NATO. Now Cuba is being dragged into the same imperial imagination: we decide who rules you.
What’s happening is bigger than any one island or country.
This is the normalization of imperial thinking.
Not whispered. Not coded. Out loud.
And it’s always sold the same way: “security,” “drugs,” “stability,” “freedom.” Meanwhile the real through-line is power — the right to dominate smaller nations and call it leadership.
This violates the moral spine of international law
International law is not perfect. The United Nations is not perfect. But there are basic principles that exist to keep the world from sliding into permanent chaos.
One of them is sovereignty — the idea that nations get to choose their own leaders without coercion by stronger powers.
Another is the prohibition on aggressive interference — the idea that you don’t get to threaten and destabilize governments because it’s convenient.
So when a U.S. President reposts a claim that his Secretary of State will become president of Cuba and says “sounds good to me,” the message being sent is simple:
Cuba’s sovereignty is optional.
And the world hears that.
So does China.
So does Russia.
So does every small country that remembers how empires behave.
And if you want to understand why global instability is rising, it’s because the strong are increasingly acting like rules are for the weak.
The Rubio angle is poison for the region
AFP reports Cuba’s government has not directly responded to the post, but it quotes Cuba’s foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez saying “right and justice are on Cuba’s side”
and calling the United States “an out-of-control criminal hegemon.”
That’s strong language. But look at what caused it: a President of the United States floating — publicly — the idea that an American official could rule a sovereign country.
Even if it’s done as a “joke,” it functions as humiliation. And humiliation is a spark.
In Latin America, there is living memory — not just historical memory — of U.S.-backed coups, regime change operations, economic strangulation, and “transition governments” that exist because Washington allows them to exist.
So this kind of post isn’t just offensive. It is destabilizing.
It tells every leader in the region: if you don’t comply, we can do to you what we just did to Venezuela — and then we can parade our preferred “future leader” as a solution.
And for Cuban Americans who have trauma, grief, and real political pain tied to Cuba, this is the worst kind of manipulation: a President turning their history into a prop for power fantasies.
Why this matters for Americans who “don’t care about foreign policy”
Because empire always comes home.
When a government normalizes domination abroad, it starts to normalize domination at home. When it treats international law like a joke, it starts treating constitutional limits like an inconvenience. When it claims the right to run other countries, it starts claiming the right to run cities, states, courts, and any institution that stands in its way.
And we’ve seen that logic creep everywhere — from crushing dissent, to punishing journalists, to intimidating institutions, to sanctioning and financially strangling people and organizations it dislikes.
When the U.S. sanctions you, it is not simply “diplomacy.” It is often economic warfare — and economic warfare is violence with paperwork.
It ruins lives.
It locks people out of the world.
It makes ordinary families pay for political conflicts they didn’t create.
So when Trump floats Rubio as “president of Cuba,” he is doing something profoundly dangerous: he is training the public to accept foreign domination as entertainment.
The real question is the one nobody wants to answer
If the United States can ruin economies through sanctions, dominate supply chains through coercion, and pressure nations through blockade and threat — then what stops a President from treating countries like trophies?
The answer is supposed to be: law, Congress, and public outrage.
But in 2026, too many people are numb. And too many institutions are afraid.
That’s why this matters. This is the kind of moment that tells you whether a society still has a moral compass.
A President saying “sounds good to me” about installing his Secretary of State as leader of another country should trigger immediate alarm — not applause, not memes, not “lol Trump.”
Because it’s not funny. It’s imperial.
And once imperial language becomes normal, imperial action becomes easier.
A line in the sand
If you believe in freedom, you don’t get to support an empire.
If you believe in sovereignty, you don’t get to cheer coercion.
If you believe Cuba should be free, you don’t get to endorse the idea that its “next leader” is decided by a U.S. repost.
Cuba belongs to Cubans.
Not to Marco Rubio.
Not to Donald Trump.
Not to any American political faction hungry for a win.
And if Washington wants a relationship with Cuba, it should be built on diplomacy and mutual respect — not strangulation and humiliation.
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Sisters and brothers - I assure you none of this is a joke. They stole a President and First Lady of a country and stuffed them in a jail in Brooklyn. Now they have crossed an INSANE line and nothing is off of the table.
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