{"id":92268,"date":"2026-05-03T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-we-will-be-taking-over-cuba-almost-immediately-after-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:42:52","slug":"trump-we-will-be-taking-over-cuba-almost-immediately-after-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-we-will-be-taking-over-cuba-almost-immediately-after-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: We Will Be Taking Over Cuba &#8220;Almost Immediately&#8221; After Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States would take over Cuba &#8220;almost immediately&#8221; following the conflict in Iran. In a speech at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, Trump said he would deploy the USS Abraham Lincoln to Cuba on the way back from Iran.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you, Dan. Good job. An architect who&#8217;s really talented. He&#8217;s done a lot of work for me. He&#8217;s got a flair, a beautiful Hispanic flair, in particular. And he comes from, originally, a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately.  No, Cuba&#8217;s got problems. We&#8217;ll finish one first. I like to finish a job. On the way back from what we&#8217;ll do &#8211; on the way back from Iran, we&#8217;ll have one of our big &#8211; maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in the world. We&#8217;ll have that come in, stop about 100 yards offshore. And they&#8217;ll say, Thank you very much. We give up. But we &#8211; but this man really is great. Rick Gonzalez. He&#8217;s a great architect. Where is Rick? He&#8217;s doing a little couple of projects for us now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/02\/trump_we_will_be_taking_over_cuba_almost_immediately_after_iran.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States would take over Cuba &#8220;almost immediately&#8221; following the conflict in Iran. In a speech at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, Trump said he would deploy the USS Abraham Lincoln to Cuba on the way back from Iran. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you, Dan. Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6435,46,1206,2710,261,89,2118,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}