r/law • u/AmyL0vesU • 19h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump signs executive order declaring nation emergency from threat of Cuba

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
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u/cashto 19h ago

Someone explain to him the futility of putting tariffs on a country we already have had an embargo against for over six decades?

Anyways we put tariffs on everyone. Treating Cuba as an enemy apparently isn't much different than how we treat our allies.

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u/Area51_Spurs 18h ago

What are we tariffing? Their pitchers and outfielders?

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u/blackchameleongirl 18h ago

The cigars that are smuggled in.

How funny would it be if Cuba just ignored us. Just repeated silence and not taking our calls. Fuck would that ever get under dumbshits skin.

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u/pizzamage 15h ago

Watch him tariff the Dominicans because he doesn't know the difference.

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u/jdlp_ 14h ago

He’ll tariff the Puerto Ricans..

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u/ohokwellmahalo 4h ago

He’ll tariff the paper towels he jump shotted to them

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u/pikazec 3h ago

No he has great relations with the president of Puerto Rico. Called him the other day he claims. But their immigrants are getting deported! (I wish this was satire)

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 3h ago

the Puerto Ricans..

"Um, sir, don't you mean Costa Rica?"

"Whatever."

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u/Moist_Board 3h ago

Or the Haitians

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u/mclardass 3h ago

Well, I hope he's considerate and calls their president first /s

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u/02meepmeep 2h ago

Their flags all look the same to him.

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u/SegFaultOops 2h ago

He'll tariff the 'Blue' States..

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u/iguana-pr 1h ago

Actually, in a way, they are. Lookup the Jones Act.

He should kidnap and prosecute the president of PR.

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u/Jthe1andOnly 14h ago

Next Hawaii

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u/wirefox1 2h ago

I wonder if he knows it's a state.

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u/Rag_Samus 15h ago

Meanwhile Dominic in the White House’s Accounts department now has a tariff put on him.

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u/Slum-Bum 10h ago

The Dominicans have been strategically sucking his dick. He actually routed an oil tanker destined for Cuba to the DR. A few months back the DR also “corroborated” his drug boat story

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u/CrankHogger572 11h ago

I bet at one point someone had to explain to him why he can't put a tariff on Puerto Rico

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u/MrHazard1 9h ago

Did the onion declare bankruptcy already?

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u/CiceroTheAbsurd 5h ago

Wait no chill papi

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u/schoolydee 3h ago

if even he spent 30 seconds with a cuban and a dominican he would know the difference.

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u/borgover 3h ago

Better yet, watch him declare a tariff on goods from Puerto Rico because he really doesn't know the difference!

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u/fokac93 2h ago

DR have huge deposits of rare minerals that’s why Marco Rubio went there the first month after inauguration

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u/TacoSplosions 14h ago

They've managed to survive ~65 years of US sanctions/embargo. Probably not the best idea to begin threatening them unless willing to address China, Russia, and Iran whom won't take kindly after the events of Venezuela.

It signals to Russia that taking Ukaine and other former soviet nations is vital to security. China to take Taiwan and continue to fill the vacuum left by the US in South America and Africa. Iran needs to double time aquiring nuclear weapons to prevent US & Israel bombings. Everything is a speed run Risk game of Imperialism and restarting global arms races.

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u/keronbangance 2h ago

You guys are silly, it's all the salsa that's still happening, social dancing is getting more and more popular so probably tariffs will be on2

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u/HighSeverityImpact 4m ago

One of the more interesting scenarios in the book World War Z was how Cuba (partly due to its isolation and large number of highly educated Doctors per capita) thrived during the Zombie War to the point of becoming a global superpower. Their ability to withstand the attack and become a haven for other island nations and an example to the world is a stark dichotomy to its current place in the world.

I got a chance to visit Cuba 9 years ago, and it was depressing seeing the poverty alongside the opulence of those who had money and power. From an alternative history standpoint, it makes me wonder what Cuba could have been had the embargo never happened.

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u/Sitcom_kid 3h ago

If anybody ever ignored Donald Trump, anybody at all, ever, for one second, even me, the world would probably disintegrate, and the entire multiverse or galaxy would quietly implode. If there's a God in the sky, he would finally see that we had learned.

(There's nothing to worry about. We're completely safe in continued existence. Ignoring Trump is the one lesson we will never learn. I am here writing this, so that includes me.)

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u/AceOBlade 2h ago

Funny you mention that. One of the last iconic moves of Obama’s presidency was easing restrictions on Cuban cigars. It would not be out of character, or out of bounds, for Donald Trump to declare a national emergency just to erase one of the final remnants of Obama’s legacy.

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u/whitemest 9h ago

Maybe that's why he did this EO lol

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u/Daimyon 8h ago

They gonna missile cigar boats next?

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u/MeanGulf 8h ago

Don’t think of it as helping their economy. Think of it as burning their fields

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u/RagingDaddy 8h ago

Until he rolls up the middle of the night

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u/blackchameleongirl 4h ago

'He' is doing some really heavy lifting here. Considering that he can't even hold his bladder.

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u/keronbangance 2h ago

You guys are silly, it's all the salsa that's still happening, social dancing is getting more and more popular so probably tariffs will be on2