Trump is "happy" to "do something" about Cuba
Support our nonprofit journalism May 22, 2026 The Trump administration has a tendency to antagonize America's neighbors: perpetual threats to buy, annex, or conquer Greenland , illegal strikes against Caribbean fishing boats, and the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro . Throughout it all, Trump’s imperial ambitions have zoned in on one small island: Cuba. “Other presidents have looked at [Cuba] for 50, 60 years, doing something,” Trump said on Thursday . “And it looks like I’ll be the one that does it...I would be happy to do it.” The US has kept Cuba under a trade embargo since the 1960s. And for about the past four months, America has blockaded oil tankers from docking on the island. Two weeks ago, Cuban minister of energy Vicente de la O Levy warned that the island of nearly 11 million people had run out of oil . As Reveal’ s Laura Morel reported, Cuba's once-vaunted hospital system is...