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Regime Change in Cuba: 'Just a Matter of Time'

Trump and other D.C. interventionists feel like they're on a roll.

Matt Welch | 3.9.2026 9:45 AM

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Near the end of a seven-minute Fox News interview on Sunday that focused mostly on Iran, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) held up a "Free Cuba" cap and teased, "Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. It's just a matter of time now."

"We're marching through the world. We're cleaning out the bad guys," the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee enthused. "I've never seen anything like it! This is Ronald Reagan–plus. Donald Trump is resetting the world in a way nobody could have dreamed of a year ago. He is the greatest commander in chief of all time. Our military is the best of all time. Iran is going down, and Cuba is next!"

Lindsey Graham being gung-ho about American bombs over the Middle East—or obsequious toward a man he once described as a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot"—is by now a dog-bites-man story. It's the regime-change in Cuba that adds a novel twist. Judging by recent remarks and actions coming out of the White House, that seven-decade Washington fever dream sounds like it may become an attempted reality sooner rather than later.

"Cuba's going to fall, too," Trump told Politico Thursday. "We cut off all oil, all money…everything coming in from Venezuela, which was the sole source. And they want to make a deal."

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