Trump is the first president to properly recognize and confront Cuba as a threat to America
Source: "Trump understands what Washington forgot: Cuba is a threat to America | Fox News." May 26, 2026. www.foxnews.com
The Gist
The authors argue that Trump is the only president who has properly understood that Cuba's communist government is a serious threat to America and has taken the right approach to deal with it. They claim previous presidents either ignored Cuba or, like Obama, foolishly tried to work with the regime, which only made things worse.
Conclusion
Donald Trump is the first president to correctly treat the Castro regime as the threat to America it has always been and to effectively confront it
Premises
- Cuba's communist regime is a designated State Sponsor of Terrorism that has conducted damaging espionage operations against the United States
- Cuba served as the intelligence backbone of the Maduro narco-state and coordinated migration flows and drug routes that harm American communities
- All previous presidents either did nothing, too little, or counterproductively helped the Cuban regime
- Obama's engagement policy (2014-2017) was particularly reckless, enriching the regime while it continued repression and caused the largest Cuban exodus since Mariel
- Trump's pressure campaign methodology successfully removed Maduro from Venezuela in a special operations raid
- Trump has reimposed comprehensive sanctions, designated GAESA, indicted Raúl Castro, and applied the same successful pressure used against Venezuela
- The United States has unique advantages for Cuban transition including Cuban-American leadership in government and a ready diaspora
Assumptions
- Military pressure and economic sanctions are more effective than diplomatic engagement for regime change
- The Cuban regime cannot be reformed and must be replaced entirely
- Cuban-American perspectives represent the best approach to Cuba policy
- Economic engagement with authoritarian regimes primarily benefits those regimes rather than promoting reform
- The Venezuela operation described actually occurred as claimed