‘No Money, No Oil’: Trump Says Communist Regime In US’s Backyard At ‘Last Moments Of Life’

President Donald Trump declared in Saturday remarks to a dozen Latin American and Caribbean heads of state that Cuba’s communist regime is “in its last moments of life.”

Trump addressed 12 leaders of Western Hemisphere nations — including Argentinian President Javier Milei and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele — at the first “Shield of the Americas” Summit in Doral, Fla. on Saturday morning. The president told his fellow heads of state that Cuba, which has been under communist rule since 1959, will soon have great “new life.” He suggested its present regime’s days are numbered, especially after the U.S.-led January capture and removal of its former key ally, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

“As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we’re also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba,” Trump teased during his address. “Cuba’s in its last moments of life as it was. It’ll have a great new life, but it’s in its last moments of life the way it is.”

“Cuba’s at the end of the line, they’re very much at the end of the line. They have no money, they have no oil. They have a bad philosophy, they have a bad regime that’s been bad for a long time,” the U.S. president continued. “I mean, they used to get the money from Venezuela, they’d get the oil from Venezuela. But they don’t have any money from Venezuela. They don’t have any oil.”