Axios: Trump Says Cuba Operation Could Mirror Venezuela Triumph

Trump is already plotting his next foreign war.

Axios:

“President Trump said Thursday on “The Axios Show” that “it’s possible” a potential Cuba invasion would resemble the swift capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January.

Why it matters: Trump wants to project U.S. military power across the Western Hemisphere, fitting a second term defined by blunt force and expansionist ambition. …

The big picture: Trump has floated a “friendly takeover” of Cuba and prefers a peaceful transition to a free island. But his administration has war-gamed military response plans in case the country’s totalitarian regime collapses, potentially as early as this summer. …”

It appears that Trump has settled on doing the exact opposite of what he campaigned on for over a decade in American politics.

MAGA was supposed to “Drain the Swamp” and hold corrupt elites accountable. Instead, the Epstein files were covered up to protect Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. The cover up was planned in the Situation Room. Pardons were sold to wealthy people. The congressmen who wanted to hold corrupt elites accountable were held accountable by MAGA who voted for people like Lindsey Graham.

MAGA was supposed to bring inflation down. Instead, the dollar has lost over 30% of its value over the past six years. Inflation has risen since Joe Biden left office thanks in large part to Trump’s foolish war with Iran for Israel. Trump’s erratic use of tariffs as weapons failed to bring back manufacturing jobs, created chaos with supply chains, drove up prices and was finally slapped down by the Supreme Court. Trump’s use of tariffs discredited tariffs and made economic nationalism unpopular.

MAGA was supposed to deliver “mass deportations” after ICE got billions of dollars from the Big Beautiful Bill. The people who were serious about “mass deportations” like Greg Bovino were fired or have since resigned. Markwayne Mullin is now in charge of DHS and immigration enforcement is no longer dominating headlines because nothing much is happening.

MAGA was supposed to deliver “no new wars.” Instead, the whole year has been spent on Trump’s foreign adventures in Venezuela and Iran. Trump is currently trying to destroy the Cuban economy to force regime change there. If that effort fails, which seems likely since decades of sanctions haven’t brought down the Cuban government, he is planning another stupid military intervention.

The sum total of all this has made Trump more unpopular than Obama and George W. Bush.