{"id":67551,"date":"2026-02-27T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/trump-suggests-us-could-carry-out-friendly-takeover-of-cuba\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:55:55","slug":"trump-suggests-us-could-carry-out-friendly-takeover-of-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/trump-suggests-us-could-carry-out-friendly-takeover-of-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump suggests US could carry out \u2018friendly takeover\u2019 of Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As tensions between two countries reach new highs, US president says regime is \u2018talking with us\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has suggested the US could carry out a \u201cfriendly takeover\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/cuba\">Cuba<\/a> as tensions between Washington and Havana reach a new high following the capture of Venezuela\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nicolas-maduro\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As he left the White House for a campaigning event in Texas on Friday, Trump said: \u201cThe Cuban government is talking with us. They\u2019re in a big deal of trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/trump-cuba-regime-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tensions between two countries reach new highs, US president says regime is \u2018talking with us\u2019 Donald Trump has suggested the US could carry out a \u201cfriendly takeover\u201d of Cuba as tensions between Washington and Havana reach a new high following the capture of Venezuela\u2019s Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. As he left the White House for a &#8230; <a title=\"Trump suggests US could carry out \u2018friendly takeover\u2019 of Cuba\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/trump-suggests-us-could-carry-out-friendly-takeover-of-cuba\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump suggests US could carry out \u2018friendly takeover\u2019 of Cuba\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}