Trump Floats 'Friendly Takeover of Cuba' as Oil Blockade Squeezes Communist Regime

President Trump floated the possibility of the United States conducting a 'friendly takeover' of Cuba as his administration tightens an oil blockade against the communist island nation. 'The Cuban government is talking with us, and they're in a big deal of trouble,' Trump told reporters Friday before departing for Texas. The remarkable suggestion — the most overt American signal toward regime change in Cuba since the Bay of Pigs — comes days after Cuban border guards killed four people aboard a Florida-registered speedboat, an incident that prompted Florida Governor DeSantis to demand an investigation. The combination of the boat shooting, the oil blockade, and now Trump's public musing about a takeover suggests Havana faces the most concerted American pressure campaign in decades.