Cuba Diplomats Stage Walk Out After Trump's Island "Will Fall" Remark At UN
Cuba's foreign minister on Tuesday reacted furiously to "falsehoods" spread by US President Donald Trump, who told the United Nations the island "will fall."
Cuban delegates left the room during Trump's speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, at a moment of exceptionally strained Washington-Havana relations.
Breaking - Cuban diplomats leave UNGA after Trump called Cuba a failed state 🤯 pic.twitter.com/tMQrQyMFkW
— Himanshu Jain (@HemanNamo) September 22, 2026
His administration imposed an energy blockade on the island in January, piling on more measures since then, and he has openly mused about seizing control of the territory.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez asserted his country's sovereignty after Trump said Cuba "will fall," without elaborating how.
"The US government is incapable of accepting that Cuba is and has the right to be a full sovereign and independent country," Rodriguez wrote on X, adding that "none of the falsehoods by the US President at the UN can deny that fact."
"We are a country of peace and we deserve peace," said Rodriguez, who is heading the Cuban delegation to New York.
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) September 22, 2026El gobierno de EEUU resulta incapaz de aceptar que #Cuba es, y tiene derecho a ser, un país plenamente independiente y soberano.
Ninguna de las falsedades del Presidente de EEUU en @ONU_es y ninguna calumnia pueden ni podrán negar ese hecho.
Cuba no es una amenaza para EEUU ni… pic.twitter.com/jqG2CpD9yk
President Miguel Diaz-Canel also denounced Trump's bellicose rhetoric.
"Unable to justify the punishment against the people of Cuba and their genocidal economic war, the President of the United States repeats at the UN that Cuba represents a threat," he posted on X.
"The lie is the resource of those who refuse to accept the right to self-determination of the Cuban people," he said.
Trump has claimed that the communist island located 150 kilometers (90 miles) off Florida's coast represents an "extraordinary threat" to US national security.
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