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Trump Will Add Cuba To List Of Obama Achievements Hes Taking Apart
A Miami speech is set for Friday to announce changes to the relaxation of tourism and trade rules.
By S.V. Date 06/15/2017 09:00 pm ET
WASHINGTON ― To the list of things former President Barack Obama did that President Donald Trump is undoing, go ahead and add Cuba.
Two and a half years ago, Obama, with great fanfare, announced an easing of the decades-long travel and trade restrictions on the island nations authoritarian regime, arguing that the policies had not worked and were only punishing ordinary Cubans.
At a speech Friday afternoon in Miamis Little Havana neighborhood, Trump is expected to reverse at least some of Obamas changes, despite public opinion nationally and even among Cuban-Americans that shows support for more ties with Cuba, not fewer.
Ive never seen a coalition this broad and it have no influence, said Marguerite Rose Jiménez, who helped craft the Obama policy at his Department of Commerce and is now with the Washington Office on Latin America advocacy group. This is not a move thats supported by a majority of the Cuban-American community.
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Matthew28
(1,796 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,673 posts)Or Brownsville to Mexico.
The black President didn't do that. This is about erasing Obama's legacy. And its purely racist!!!
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Will corrupt together very well/....
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)Humpty Dumpty Donald or the Big Con wants to negotiate with Cuba to line his own and his buddies pockets and castros brother who is more corrupt than Fidel or Groucho Fidel will gladly negotiate with the Big Con...
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)He wants to erase every trace of Obama's eight years as President.
This demonstrates what a petty, vindictive man/child Trump is. His scorched earth policy, when it comes to President Obama, will destroy the very thing he thinks he's protecting.
How I loathe that piece of Trump. I can only take solace in the fact that history will be the final judge of each man's achievements and respectability. Trump will finish dead fucking last. Obama, one of the greats.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)he's protecting his "reputation", such as it is, and the good family name of "Trump".
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)60+ years of failed policy. Retrenchment isn't the answer.
Submariner
(12,498 posts)soon and have a giant turkey fry at Mar A Lago.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,158 posts)out of a new Rump International Hotel.
OnDoutside
(19,948 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a petty little man!