Trump predicts he and Marco Rubio will see end of the Cuban regime before his term is over: 'Look at what we did with Venezuela'

President Donald Trump believes that the Castro regime's days are numbered. The president asserted that the Cuban regime won't survive much longer and that its downfall will come before he leaves the White House, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio closely monitoring the situation.

The remarks were made in an interview with conservative influencer Benny Johnson, recorded in Florida, where the interviewer asked him what the chances were that the Castros would remain in power on the island over the next two years.

"Well, I would say it’s not going to last much longer. Look, it’s a failed country," Trump replied. “We’re going to get people back there very soon. Look at what we did with Venezuela.”

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The president placed Cuba on a list of priorities where, for now, ranks behind the Iranian regime. He maintained that the war with the Islamic Republic is going well, that Tehran has lost its Navy, its Air Force, and its air defense, and that it will never have a nuclear weapon.

"We’re going to finish off one, and then we’re going to maybe take a look at the other," Trump said.

In that context, the Secretary of State Rubio emerges as the central figure.

"But we’re watching Cuba very closely. And we have Marco looking at it extremely closely. His parents were from Cuba. And that’ll work out definitely within his two and a half years," Trump declared.

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The president's remarks come on the heels of a week of increasingly direct messages toward Havana. On Friday, at a rally in South Florida, Trump said that when U.S. ships return from Iran, one would stop just a few meters off the Cuban coast and that he would then send Rubio to "seal the deal." Minutes later, Rubio himself took to X to invite Cubans seeking change to collaborate discreetly with the CIA.

These messages also follow a recent show of force that has Cuban authorities concerned. In January, U.S. forces captured former dictator Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, Cilia Flores, in Caracas. Both now face trial in New York on charges of narco-terrorism and torture. In the case of Cuba, the Department of Justice has already filed criminal charges against former dictator Raúl Castro, who remains a high-ranking official in the communist regime.