Trump Hints Which Dictator Could Be Next After Toppling Maduro

President Donald Trump warned brutal world leaders such as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel during a Saturday press conference that what happened to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro could happen to them.

Trump announced in a post on Truth Social that U.S. military forces protected a law enforcement operation to arrest Maduro and his wife in Caracas early Saturday morning. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio later said at the press conference that current members of the Cuban regime could meet the same fate as Maduro.

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“Well, Cuba’s an interesting case. Cuba is, you know, not doing very well right now. That system has not been a very good one for Cuba. The people there have suffered for many, many years, and I think soon Cuba is gonna be something we’ll end up talking about, ’cause Cuba is a failing nation right now, very badly failing nation,” Trump said. “It’s very similar in the sense that we wanna help the people in Cuba, but we wanna also help the people that were forced out of Cuba and living in this country.”

“Suffice it to say, you know, Cuba is a disaster. It’s run by incompetent, senile men, and, in some cases, not senile but incompetent nonetheless,” Rubio added. “It has no economy. It’s in total collapse. And by the way, you know, all the guards that helped protect Maduro — this is well known — their whole spy agency, all that were full of Cubans. I mean, they basically— it’s amazing — this poor island took over Venezuela in some cases. One of the biggest problems that Venezuelans have is they have to declare independence from Cuba, that tried to basically colonize it from a security standpoint. So yeah, look, if I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least, a little bit.”