Throughout Wednesday’s Morning Joe, a information package deal from MS NOW reporter Britt Miller performed and decried the seize of Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro for placing strain on the communist regime in Cuba. She ignored the anti-communist protests towards the persevering with Castro family-influenced authorities, as she predicted one other Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Miller’s report additionally highlighted former Obama Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor Ben Rhodes, nicknamed by Rahm Emmanuel as “Hamas,” as a premier coverage skilled.
Miller’s report got here amidst the latest army motion in, first, Venezuela after which Iran, which the MS NOW report based mostly solely on regime change.
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, a information package deal from MS NOW’s Britt Miller decried the seize of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro for placing strain on Cuba. She ignored the anti-communist protests towards the Castro-influenced authorities, as she predicted one other Bay of Pigs. pic.twitter.com/P04yXRv4Tw
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Miller launched pushback to potential Cuba operations with “coverage consultants,” who occurred to be simply Ben Rhodes, who spent his airtime with comparable speaking factors from the Iran battle:
MILLER: Like operations in Iran and Venezuela, Trump is pushing for regime change by means of a potential take care of the Cuban authorities. However coverage consultants are questioning why now.
RHODES: And so they’re truly not even figuring out some risk that they are attempting to get rid of. There is no nuclear weapons in Cuba or missiles. It simply appears to be settling a really outdated rating for america.
It’s an attention-grabbing stretch to have the one coverage skilled on a narrative towards actions in Cuba be Ben Rhodes. Coverage consultants was truly plural.
Then Miller’s report didn’t totally give background on the historical past of Cuban persecution underneath Fidel Castro and, now, Castro-affiliated governments.
Right here’s the one reference to Cuba and Fidel Castro being dangerous actors:
After Fidel Castro’s revolution, Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union grew stronger, stoking U.S. concern whereas getting ready to nuclear battle. Generations had been torn aside underneath Castro’s rule as households escaped to the US.
Miller then turned responsible the present Cuban disaster on Trump eradicating former Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro:
At present, Cubans are struggling with excessive inflation, meals shortages, energy outages and a worsening power disaster after the US captured ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and lower off Cuba’s entry to Venezuela’s oil.
The one interviewee in favor of actions in Cuba, Marcel Felipe of the American Museum of Cuban Diaspora, stated he and plenty of Cuban-People had been “very, very excited.” Miller turned that into: “However not all Cuban People are hopeful a regime change will imply higher days forward.”
To finish her piece, Miller went again to Rhodes to “scrutinize” Trump’s complete international coverage and complain about worldwide regulation:
Was the Venezuelan operation authorized? No. Was the Iran battle authorized? No. Is there any sort of authorized foundation to be strangling an island with sanctions and sort of demanding that the federal government change itself? No. And so I believe what folks world wide see is america that’s now not in any method certain by worldwide regulation.
Muammar Gaddafi couldn’t be reached for remark.
In Miller’s remaining trick, she alleged the operation might end up just like the Bay of Pigs:
(…) his discuss of eradicating the Castros from energy echoes an extended US Historical past of attempting to reshape Cuba, together with the CIA effort to overthrow Fidel Castro throughout the disastrous bay of pigs invasion in 1961.(…).
The package deal’s reliance on Rhodes and a downplaying of the Castro aligned communist authorities of Cuba actions ought to make some replicate on the manufacturing of this hit.
The transcript is beneath. Click on “develop”:
MS NOW’s Morning Joe
March 11, 2026
7:28:34 AM Japanese
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MIKA BRZEZINSKI: The main focus proper now’s on Iran, however the Trump Administration appears to even be setting the stage for regime change in Cuba. MS NOW Reporter Britt Miller has that a part of the story.
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BRITT MILLER: Because the US-Israel battle with Iran rages within the Center East, President Trump is setting his sights on one other goal: Cuba.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It might be a pleasant takeover. It will not be a pleasant takeover. It would not matter as a result of they’re actually in there all the way down to, as they are saying, fumes.
MILLER: Like operations in Iran and Venezuela, Trump is pushing for regime change by means of a potential take care of the Cuban authorities. However coverage consultants are questioning why now.
BEN RHODES (Fmr. Obama Dep. Nationwide Safety Adviser): And so they’re truly not even figuring out some risk that they are attempting to get rid of. There is no nuclear weapons in Cuba or missiles. It simply appears to be settling a really outdated rating for america.
MILLER: After Fidel Castro’s revolution, Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union grew stronger, stoking U.S. concern whereas getting ready to nuclear battle. Generations had been torn aside underneath Castro’s rule as households escaped to the US.
President Obama later easing journey restrictions to Cuba and eradicating the nation from the state sponsors of terrorism record. However practically 70 years later, the Castro household nonetheless exerting energy even after Fidel Castro’s demise.
At present, Cubans are struggling with excessive inflation, meals shortages, energy outages and a worsening power disaster after the US captured ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and lower off Cuba’s entry to Venezuela’s oil.
MARCELL FELIPE (Chair of American Museum of Cuban Diaspora): Effectively, like everyone else right here in Miami and on the island, everybody may be very, very excited. Cubans are going by means of the difficulties that they are going by means of. So, the truth that now there’s a horizon makes folks hopeful that the ache goes to be quick lived, it may be non permanent, and it may result in one thing a lot, a lot better.
MILLER: However not all Cuban People are hopeful a regime change will imply higher days forward.
LADY: We’ve not seen him do anything for Venezuela. He is dropped it. Now it is Iran and now it is Cuba. So it is like a bit boy that has a brand new toy.
MILLER: Nevertheless, the Trump Administration is making it clear that is no recreation because the DOJ goals for legal expenses towards Cuban leaders.
FELIPE: Effectively, , the legal expenses is one thing that this group has been asking for the final 30 years.
MILLER: As Trump continues to tighten his grip on Cuba, his method to international coverage is being scrutinized.
RHODES: Was the Venezuelan operation authorized? No. Was the Iran battle authorized? No. Is there any sort of authorized foundation to be strangling an island with sanctions and sort of demanding that the federal government change itself? No. And so I believe what folks world wide see is america that’s now not in any method certain by worldwide regulation.
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MILLER: And whereas the president’s transfer for regime change in Cuba seems to be diplomatic for now, his discuss of eradicating the Castros from energy echoes an extended U.S. historical past of attempting to reshape Cuba, together with the CIA effort to overthrow Fidel Castro throughout the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Again to you.
