The Trump administration on Thursday turned up the heat on Cuba, calling it a “failed country” and pledging that the US would take unspecified action to right it.
“It’s a failed country, everybody knows it,” President Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday. “They don’t have electricity, they don’t have money, they don’t have really anything… and we’re going to help them along.”
“Other presidents have looked at doing something for 50, 60 years, and it looks like I’ll be the one that does it,” he added.
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