Trump is growing impatient as Cuban regime clings to power

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U.S. officials believe the regime could fall by the end of the year, but that timeline isn’t fast enough for the president, sources say. The White House says Cuba has rejected humanitarian and economic assistance to stabilize.

Women at a rally calling for the end of the U.S. blockade against Cuba in Havana on April 7.Ramon Espinosa / AP file

May 11, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

By Katherine Doyle, Courtney Kube, Dan De Luce, Abigail Williams, Colleen Long and Andrea Mitchell

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the Cuban government’s ability to maintain power despite months of sustained U.S. pressure and has been pressing his advisers about why his administration’s efforts to tip the regime into collapse have not yet succeeded, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and three people familiar with the discussions.

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