Trump Suggests U.S. Warships Could Stop in Cuba on Return From Iran War
At a South Florida rally, President Donald Trump suggested that U.S. warships returning from the Iran war could stop in Cuba, according to PBS NewsHour.
PBS NewsHour reported that President Donald Trump told a rally for candidates in South Florida on Friday that U.S. warships returning from the Middle East could stop over in Cuba on their way back from the Iran war. The account appears in a video segment titled WATCH: Trump at GOP rally in Florida revives idea of military intervention in Cuba after Iran.
According to the PBS NewsHour summary, the remark was Trump's latest suggestion of taking an "interventionist approach" toward the nearby country. The headline of the report describes the statement as a revival of the idea of military intervention in Cuba, a framing the summary does not elaborate.
The report was written by Meg Kinnard of The Associated Press and carried by PBS NewsHour. As summarized, the comments were made at a rally for candidates, and the setting is identified only as South Florida. The summary presents the warship stop as a possibility, not as an announced plan.
The summary describes the warships as returning from the Middle East but does not identify the vessels, their number, or their route beyond the proposed stop in Cuba. It also does not describe the Iran war in detail beyond naming it as the conflict from which the ships would be returning.
No response from the Cuban government, the Pentagon, or members of Congress appears in the summary available for this story, and the report does not state whether any such response has been made. Because the account rests on a single summary of one news report, details beyond those points cannot be confirmed here.