Did anyone tell the Slobfather that the US does not own Guantanamo Bay

[malaise]

It is still part of Cuba and thankfully the lease will eventually expire

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

1. The lease has no expiration date

For all practical means, we own it until we decide to give it back or the Cubans somehow force us out.

[Hekate]

2. What he said was: "Don't we own an island somewhere?" That man is scary as hell. nt

[spanone]

3. The most ignorant 'president' ever.

[PoliticAverse]

4. The terms of the "lease" (treaty) allow the US to remain as long as it wants...

Until the two contracting parties agree to the modification or abrogation of the stipulations of the agreement in regard to the lease to the United States of America of lands in Cuba for coaling and naval stations signed by the President of the Republic of Cuba on February 16, 1903, and by the President of the United States of America on the 23d day of the same month and year, the stipulations of that agreement with regard to the naval station of Guantanamo shall continue in effect. The supplementary agreement in regard to naval or coaling stations signed between the two Governments on July 2, 1903, also shall continue in effect in the same form and on the same conditions with respect to the naval station at Guantanamo. So long as the United States of America shall not abandon the said naval station of Guantanamo or the two Governments shall not agree to a modification of its present limits, the station shall continue to have the territorial area that it now has, with the limits that it has on the date of the signature of the present Treaty.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/dip_cuba001.asp

[grantcart]

5. I seem to remember that the Castro government never cashed any lease checks.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Only one...

From https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN17200921

HAVANA, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial Guantanamo naval base, but Cuba has only once cashed a check in almost half a century and then only by mistake, Fidel Castro wrote in an essay published on Friday.

The ailing Cuban leader, who has not appeared in public for more than a year, said he had refused to cash the checks to protest the "illegal" U.S. occupation of the land which he said was now used for "dirty work".

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Boundaries don't matter to him any more than ownership

It's all his. Contractor's money, supporters' money, government money, election outcomes. It's all his.

This is GOP entitlement, privilege. The benefits of society belong to those who can pay cash, or just take it. That's what they believe and the way they act. They're doing it to our elections.