What Cubans Think About Trump

June 10, 2026

When Donald Trump says that Cuban people love him, he’s talking about Cubans in Miami. On the island, it’s a different story.

We asked Cubans in Cuba about what they think about Trump.


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  • "Donald Trump?" a reporter asked passersby in Havana.

    "He's out of his mind," said one passerby.

    "But 95% of Cubans [in Florida] voted for me. I'm going to take good care of them," said Donald Trump, U.S. President, in archival footage.

    "What do Cubans, in Cuba, think of Donald Trump?" read on-screen text.

    "I don't know how he came to power in the U.S.," said another passerby. "He's the worst thing nature has ever produced."

    "Everything he's doing, his policies and all that, affects us as a people," a third passerby said.

    "He thinks that he lives alone in the world, and wants to take control of every territory, and play the madman," another said.

    "Look at the bus stops. There's no oil, there's nothing, and we're the ones paying the price, the people," another passerby said.

    "He should give us a chance to breathe and leave us alone," another said.

    "I don't understand how a person can have so much power, who is clearly mentally unbalanced," another passerby said.

    "People like him come to power, they make decisions, they start wars, it's madness," another said.

    "We don't agree with what he's doing, in Cuba, Palestine, Iran," another passerby said.

    "I see him as a neo-fascist, a provocateur who shouldn't interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, like Cuba, our country. I see him as a disruptive figure, an aggressive man," another said.

    "He has contributed to making the situation even more difficult. We're living through very violent times, like these long periods without electricity," another passerby said.

    "He's someone who wakes up one day and does one thing. Next day, another one. And based on his economic power and everything he's built around his name, he's imposing his will," another said.

    "To me, that man is crazy. But money is what rules. In his world, it rules," a final passerby concluded.

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