Newsman: President Donald Trump predicted Cuba’s communist government is on the edge of collapse following the United States’ capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
“Cuba is ready to fall,” Trump said. “Cuba looks like it’s ready to fall. I don’t know if they’re going to hold out. But Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from their Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They’re not getting any of it. And Cuba is literally ready to fall.”
Trump added: “You have a lot of great Cuban Americans who are going to be very happy about this.”
Trump on Jan. 4 also threatened United States military intervention to oust Colombian President Gustavo Petro and reaffirmed his desire for the United States to annex Greenland, which is controlled by Denmark.
Trump suggested Venezuela won’t be the only Latin American country to face upheaval as he addressed reporters on Air Force One on the flight back to Washington from Florida, where he spent the holidays.
A recent blockade the Trump administration imposed on Venezuela oil cut Cuba off to a critical energy supply that the island nation relies on. Trump has said U.S. companies will soon take over Venezuela’s oil supplies following the capture of Maduro, a close ally of the Cuban government. Several Cubans died during the U.S. attack on Venezuela that led to Maduro’s capture.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants is a longtime critic of the Cuban government led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who condemned the U.S. actions in Venezuela.
Rubio issued a warning to Cuba in a Jan. 3 news conference as Trump and his top officials discussed the Venezuelan attack. “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I would be concerned ‒ at least a little bit,” Rubio said.
President Donald Trump while spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One en route from Florida to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Jan. 4, 2026 said,
‘Sounds good to me,’ Trump says of US operation in Colombia
As for Colombia, led by the leftist Petro, Trump said the country is “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”
“He’s not going to be doing it very long ‒ let me tell you,” Trump said. Asked whether the U.S. will conduct an operation in Colombia, Trump said: “Sounds good to me.”
Petro, in response to Trump’s threat, issued a lengthy statement on X: “If you arrest the president whom a good part of my people want and respect, you will unleash the popular jaguar.”
“Every soldier of Colombia has an order from now on: every commander of the public force who prefers the flag of the US to the flag of Colombia must immediately withdraw from the institution by order of the bases and the troops and mine,” Petro said.
