No . . . it isn’t likely that Marco Rubio would ever inherit the presidency of the United States, as he is fourth in the line of succession. Although, if Congress were to impeach and convict Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, that would leave only 92-year-old President Pro Temp of the Senate Chuck Grassley between Rubio and the Oval Office . . .

But seriously, the odds are slim. However, there’s always Cuba.

No, wait. This is not a joke. It’s also not my idea. A little background:

In his mania to realign the entire western hemisphere, Donald Trump has threatened Cuba with a complete cutoff of oil from its main source — Venezuela — screaming in ALL CAPS on Truth Social yesterday:

“Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘Security Services’ for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE! THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” [George Wright, BBC, January 11, 2026.]

Typically, he didn’t offer specifics of any deal he might have in mind, or the possible consequences in the event of Cuba’s refusal. (By the way, he also failed to mention the 32 Cuban nationals who were reportedly killed during his little invasion of Caracas . . . but they had most likely slipped his mind as being of no importance.)

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez responded that his country had the right to import fuel from any exporter that would sell to them, “without interference or subordination to the unilateral coercive measures of the United States,” and that, allegedly unlike the U.S., Cuba does not lend itself to “blackmail or military coercion against other States.” [Id.]

How quickly they seem to have forgotten the Castro years, the decades of control by the Soviet Union, and that little matter of the Soviet missiles on their island aimed at the U.S. mainland in 1962. But never mind . . .

Then, as tends to happen on social media, some clown who obviously finds the threat of war amusing posted a message suggesting that Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, might become president of Cuba. And Trump saw this as a great idea, re-posting that bit of idiocy with the comment:

“Sounds good to me!” [Id.]

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Setting aside for the moment the complete absurdity of the idea, I have a serious question: Has Trump — or anyone else in his administration, for that matter — ever considered what his immigration policies would have meant a generation ago for people like the parents of Marco Rubio, Usha Vance, and Kash Patel . . . or, even more recently, for his own wife Melania?

Nah . . . I didn’t think so.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
1/12/26