A State Department X account posted a claim that President Donald Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio was from Cuba. The post included a video and a short transcript of Trump’s remarks about Cuba. Trump’s remarks correctly referred to Rubio’s parents being from Cuba rather than Rubio himself. Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban immigrants. The inaccurate post appeared during increased administration rhetoric against Cuba and amid Rubio’s role in addressing Cuba’s situation. Trump has proposed a U.S. takeover of Cuba and later ordered an oil blockade that contributed to Cuba’s electrical grid collapse. Rubio also posted a Spanish-language video addressing Cuban people about the blockade.
"The official X account for Marco Rubio's State Department falsely claimed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump said the secretary was from Cuba. The post included a video of the president answering a reporter's question about his administration's stance on Cuba, followed by a short transcript of Trump's response. PRESIDENT TRUMP: We have a lot of people in Cuba. We have the CIA there. @SecRubio is from there, so we have a lot of expertise, the written text of the post read."
"We're going to help the Cuban people out. We're freeing up Cuba. Marco Rubio is not from Cuba. He was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban immigrants. Yet oddly, Trump did not claim in the video attached to the post that his Secretary of State was from Cuba. The president's actual remarks were correct in noting that Rubio's parents were born in Cuba, not their son. PRESIDENT TRUMP: We have a lot of people in Cuba. We have the CIA there. @SecRubio is from there, so we have a lot of expertise. We're going to help the Cuban people out. We're freeing up Cuba. pic.twitter.com/WUY08fgonW"
"The State Department's online gaffe comes amid a sharp uptick in the administration's rhetoric against Cuba and the secretary's role in combatting the country. Trump has floated a U.S. takeover of Cuba for months, claiming that the country's communist government was ready to fall days after the capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January. Days later, Trump instituted an oil blockade on the country, which in March caused Cuba's electrical grid to collapse due to dwindling fuel."
"On the same day the State Department's post went up, Rubio posted a five-minute video addressing the Cuban people, in which he spoke only in Spanish. The secretary discussed the blockade on the country,"
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