WASHINGTON (WSVN) — While welcoming Inter Miami to the White House to celebrate their 2025 MLS championship, President Donald Trump made vague comments in a possible preview of American intervention in Cuba.
The president’s comments were made while referring to Inter Miami’s Cuban-American owner, Jorge Mas, subtly suggesting the possibility of the U.S. taking military action on the island nation after the war with Iran ends.
“What’s happening with Cuba is amazing. We wanna finish this one first, but that will be just a question of time before you and a lot of unbelievable people are gonna be going back to Cuba — hopefully not to stay. We want you back, we don’t want to lose you, we don’t wanna make it so nice that they stay, but some people probably do wanna stay,” said Trump.
Mas spoke of his family’s history of escaping Cuba in search of a better life.
“As the son of a man and woman who left Cuba just seeking freedom in this great country, it has driven us to excellence,” said Mas.
Mas’ father, Jorge Mas Canosa, founded MasTec, a Fortune 500 construction company headquartered in Miami.
Mas Canosa was a powerful political figure and openly anti-Castro. He was also a driving force behind the creation of Radio Marti and TV Marti and served in the U.S. Army during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
“I speak now in tribute to our parents’ generation, and I share that with Secretary [of State] Marco Rubio, of men and women who fled communism, who fled tyranny, who wanted a better life for their boys,” said Mas.
The comments come amid a deepening crisis on the island, with another day of blackouts rolling across western Cuba, which officials have blamed on the fragile power grid and a lack of fuel.
State media in Cuba has reported that nearly half of Havana remains in the dark, with two power plants still inoperable due to a lack of oil.
As the island continues to struggle to maintain basic operations, the Trump administration is reportedly in talks with the grandson of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro, bypassing official government channels to discuss the country’s future, including a potential regime change. What his involvement in the potential forced regime change would look like remains unclear.
“I wanted to wait a couple of weeks, but we’ll be together again soon, I suspect, celebrating what’s going on in Cuba. They want to make a deal so badly, you have no idea,” said Trump.
While no definitive actions have been made about Cuba, President Trump has said Cuban leaders have reached out to discuss a deal, but that he didn’t want to take further action on the island while the conflict with Iran remains ongoing.
U.S. officials will be hosting a conference with Latin American leaders called “The Shield of Americas” in Doral over the weekend. White House officials said the coalition will work on ideology and policy positions to help secure the Western Hemisphere.
“The Shield of Americas” will be guided majorly by the president’s foreign policy agenda.
What the new initiative entails and who’s going to be leading it will be discussed at that conference in Doral.
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