Trump Threatens To 'Terminate' Normalized Relations With Cuba
Source: Talking Points Memo
Donald Trump on Monday threatened to undo President Barack Obamas attempts to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba unless the island nation makes reforms that are to his liking. If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal, the President-elect [link:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/803237535178772481wrote on Twitter].
Trump offered no further explanation of the kind of reforms he would like to see, or what would prompt him to rescind Obamas 2014 executive actions re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and lifting key economic sanctions against the country.
His recently-named chief of staff, Reince Priebus, offered some specifics in a Sunday interview on Fox News. Priebus [link:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/27/priebus-trump-will-void-cuba-deal-unless-castro-regime-moves-to-concessions.htmlnamed] repression, open markets, freedom of religion, political prisoners as some of the key factors that need to change if the United States and Cuba are to have a relationship.
Trump transition communications director Jason Miller told reporters in a Monday conference call that the President-elect understands that Cuba is a very complex topic. In addition to the priorities Priebus stated, Miller said that Trump would focus on the return of fugitives from American law.
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bucolic_frolic
(43,176 posts)Greenlighting golf courses and hotel and casinos for foreign
real estate developers
Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)he might consider having a more open relationship.
dhill926
(16,343 posts)that is all. Godamighty it's gonna suck for a while...
barbtries
(28,798 posts)for the Cuban Trump hotel.
Cha
(297,289 posts)would trump pandering to Cuba haters.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Raygun part 2. Upside,1%ers wealth increases by 1.1 Trillion via Income Tax cuts. Downside,everyone who pulls a paycheck will see their incomes reduced by increase Tax levees. More downside,USA becomes a protectionist Country and a Dollar that will drop in value,doubt me,just look at what and who are the players in Don the Cons Cabinet. Austerity on Roid's about to happen. Oh,BTW,Trump International will get his new Hotel and Golf Course in Cuba and Saudi Arabia.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)then used his new status to get a tower built in Argentina. He's one to lecture about standards.
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)This is a preview of a Trump presidency: Governing by blackmail.
Each state should start thinking about how they'll get along without any federal funding, because he'll try to cut off funding - one program at a time - every time a state doesn't conform to policies of "his liking".
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)His talk is cheap, call the world if he manages to put something in writing besides twitter.
BumRushDaShow
(129,084 posts)supports Cuba and his predecessors helped to create its Communist roots... and probably would want nothing more than to funnel U.S. dollars right into his pockets in Moscow.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)...and capitalize nicely off the change in relations between the US and Cuba.
JMHO, but based on observation of past behavior.
Cha
(297,289 posts)in eyes over a dump tower in Cuba.
he tweets one thing while doing the opposite. He knows his gd fans don't give a shit.
Kennah
(14,273 posts)0rganism
(23,957 posts)seems like something they could be considering
madokie
(51,076 posts)one is the tRump voters won't read or hear this
the other is they agree
Leaves the question. Which is scarier?