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The executive branch no longer serves the country. The executive branch serves the Trump family. Cuba is the current acquisition and American Marines will pay.
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René Portocarrero, La Habana, c. 1960s. Portocarrero paints Havana as accumulated civilization, where cathedrals, empire, ritual, decay, and endurance suffocate together beautifully.
America never was America to me." Let America Be America Again - Langston Hughes, 1936
Twenty-eight years of trademark filings, sham-charity invoices, and crypto disclosures connect the Cuba operation to the Trump family balance sheet. American Marines will pay the closing cost.
The Trump family has held the trademarks for a Trump Tower in Havana and a Trump golf course in Varadero since 2008. Eric and Don Jr. now run the trust that controls the assets. The family has built the financing, and selected the site. The Trump family needs American Marines to risk it all clearing the deal.
Memorial Day weekend begins. Across America, families are getting the folded flag down, and setting an extra plate. They are driving to Arlington, or wherever their veteran came home in a flag. Each family stands before a stone naming a kid who lived twenty-three years.
Memorial Day honors the kids who already paid. The President spent Thursday volunteering the next batch.
On Thursday, the President said this about Cuba: “Other presidents have looked at this for 50, 60 years, doing something. And it looks like I’ll be the one that does it. So, I would be happy to do it.”
He said an invasion would make him happy.
Happy to do what, exactly? The President will not say, but I will.
The USS Nimitz sits ninety miles off Cuba. The Pentagon handed Trump three options: airstrike, warning shot, invasion. Trump is preparing Navy pilots for anti aircraft fire and Marines for drone mined beaches.
Russian and Iranian weapons already line the coast. Putin ratified a Russia Cuba military treaty last October. Five thousand Cuban soldiers returned from Ukraine carrying Kremlin funded drone warfare training. Cuba now holds three hundred Russian and Iranian drones, while regime officials discussed targeting Guantánamo, Navy ships, and Key West. Russian intelligence facilities operate there again. Six days ago, Lavrov pledged Moscow’s full backing of Havana. Trump is prepared to send American Marines onto that armed coastline to die for a hotel.
This Memorial Day weekend, we get to ask the President one question.
Would you sacrifice our kids in Cuba so your sons can build hotels there? Would you bury our daughters on a beach the Trumps plan to pave for a casino? Would you fold a flag for a neighbor so Eric cuts a ribbon, knock on a Toledo mother’s door so Don Jr. poses for a photo, write a condolence letter to a Mobile father so the family LLC breaks ground in Varadero?
That is the question. The question is not rhetorical, and it is not exaggeration. The transaction sits on the table.
Here is how we know.
In 1998, Trump’s hotel company paid $68,000 to sneak emissaries into Havana. The mission was not human rights. The mission was hotel sites. Trump’s lawyers disguised it as a charitable donation to evade the embargo. Newsweek caught them in 2016. The paperwork sits in the public record. Look it up.
In 2008, Trump registered his brand inside Cuba. In 2016, candidate Trump said Havana had “some potential” for a Trump hotel. He has been working to get this island for twenty-eight years, and the trademark filings, the trip invoices, and the court records are all public.
Now look at what is happening this month.
On May 1, Trump signed Executive Order 14404, weaponizing secondary sanctions against every foreign hotel operator in Cuba. Meliá shuttered half its properties, profits cratered 68 percent, and shares collapsed 8.5 percent within hours. Sunwing abandoned 26 hotels. Treasury is clearing competitors from the island before ownership changes hands.
On May 20, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche indicted Raúl Castro. Blanche previously defended Trump personally. Six weeks earlier, Trump removed Pam Bondi for weak prosecutions, then elevated Blanche immediately afterward. The legal justification for extraction now sits prepared, while the Pentagon rehearsed the Venezuela model against Maduro four months ago.
The President’s family operates outside any blind trust, with his son administering the trust that holds the assets. Eric Trump’s net worth climbed from fifty million dollars to four hundred million in a single year, and Donald Jr.’s rose from fifty million to three hundred million across the same period.
Eric and Don Jr. run a cryptocurrency firm and a Bitcoin mining company. The brothers operate a one-billion-dollar investment fund. The portfolio spans drones, artificial intelligence, and nuclear startups. New Trump hotels rise in Dubai, Qatar, and Serbia. A Washington club charges five hundred thousand dollars per seat. Lobbyists now buy direct access to the sons of the sitting President.
The clawback architecture has entered Congress. Senator Adam Schiff introduced the Corruption Clawback Act on March 12, 2026, authorizing Justice Department recovery of funds extracted through presidential corruption while piercing international financial shelters without statutory time barriers. The Madoff trustee proved the machinery works when RICO forfeiture, fraudulent transfer law, and unjust enrichment doctrine recovered fourteen billion dollars, returning investors seventy to eighty cents per stolen dollar.
Cuba is the next acquisition.
This Memorial Day weekend, while families across the country stand in front of stones with names and two dates, picture the one no stonemason has carved yet. Picture a twenty-two-year-old kid from Ohio, and her mother answering the knock at the door, and the flag, and the bugle, and the long drive home from the funeral.
Now picture, five years on, a Trump International Hotel and Casino rising from the Varadero beach where she died. The valet in the red vest, the slot machines ringing, the high rollers flying in from Riyadh. Don Jr. cutting the ribbon for the cameras, the President, by then retired, calling the hotel the deal of a lifetime, and some politician at the podium telling that mother her daughter died for Cuban freedom.
That is what “happy to do it” means, and that is the transaction this President will, in his own words, happily make.
Twenty-eight years of paperwork tell one story: the trademark filings, the sham-charity embargo run, the “some potential” quote, the field-clearing sanctions, the defense-lawyer-turned-
This Memorial Day, cable hosts will glorify sacrifice, Republican senators will sanctify intervention, and the Secretary of State will invoke national security. Eric and Don Jr. will cut the hotel ribbon later, cashing in afterward.
Today, send one email to military journalists. Use tips@militarytimes.com or the form at taskandpurpose.com/got-a-tip.
Subject: Cuba operation and Trump family hotel trademarks
Body:
In 1998, Trump’s hotel company paid $68,000 for Havana hotel scouting, disguised as a charitable donation to evade the embargo (Newsweek, September 2016).
In 2008, the family registered trademarks for a Trump Tower in Havana and a golf course in Varadero.
On May 22, 2026, the President said: “I would be happy to do it.”
Has anyone connected the twenty-eight-year hotel pursuit to the Cuba operation?
Send the email.
Eric Trump's net worth went from $50 million to $400 million in one year. Don Jr.'s went from $50 million to $300 million. Cuba is the next entry on the family balance sheet. Historians have a word for a republic that has been turned into one family's property. The word is estate.
“O, let America be America again— / The land that never has been yet— / And yet must be." — Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again," 1936
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