🚨 JUST IN: President Trump signs executive order declaring a national emergency over CUBA, and preparing tariffs on ANY country supplying oil to Cuba
Sec. Marco Rubio no doubt has a hand in this.
Cuba is about to get utterly choked off.
Trump and Marco are coming, Cuba! 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/PBDeiK3Hxy
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2026
President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency concerning Cuba, creating a new mechanism to impose tariffs on imports from any country that provides the island nation with oil.
The executive order Trump signed Thursday states that Cuba, its policies, practices and actions constitute “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
The order imposes a new tariff system to punish those dealing in oil with Cuba, though it does not specify which imports would be affected nor at what percentage rate.
Trump has used tariffs as a tool to punish and negotiate, going back to his first administration. Since returning to the White House, Trump has leaned on executive orders to impose sweeping sanctions affecting most U.S. trade partners, attracting lawsuits that say they are illegal.