Wire reporting: (Reuters, via Al-Monitor)

President Donald Trump said at a Fort Myers, Florida, rally on Friday that he would turn to Cuba once the war with Iran is settled, and suggested U.S. forces returning from that conflict could pause near the island¹.

Times of India reported he spoke for about 90 minutes in support of Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running for Florida governor against Democrat David Jolly, with midterm elections on Nov. 3¹.

Trump said a returning force could stop about 50 yards off Cuba's coast, raise its hands, and that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would finish the deal¹.

The same report said his administration has imposed an oil blockade on Cuba amid fuel shortages and blackouts, and that Trump called Cuba a failed state at the United Nations in September, after which the Cuban delegation walked out¹.

Times of India also said Rubio posted on X that people seeking a different future for Cuba should work with the CIA, without further detail¹.

Before the Florida trip, Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn that the United States could end the Iran war quickly but asked whether to finish it or let it wither^3,4,5.

Al-Monitor carried Reuters' account that he said oil was getting out through the Strait of Hormuz and that Washington was getting what it wanted³.

Middle East Eye reported he praised the Navy's work on that waterway and repeated that Hormuz was under U.S. control⁴.

Reuters' own page on those comments was not readable for this filing².

It is not established from these reports whether any Cuba military pause is planned, how the Iran war would end, or how Cuban or Iranian officials responded to Friday's remarks^1,3,4.