# Post ts_116222200536303389

- Post ID: `ts_116222200536303389`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-13T13:54:02.360Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Cuba confirms talks with Trump officials, raising hopes for US deal: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/03/13/cuba-confirms-talks-trump-economic-deal/89132765007/

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,371
- Reposts: 3,954
- Replies: 1,214
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-14T00:30:25.640Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:53:55.124Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Cuba Talks News Share

This is a straightforward news-link share about Cuba confirming talks with Trump officials. The post contains zero original commentary — just a headline and URL. This is a textbook aide-written post, almost certainly from Dan Scavino or comms staff, designed to project diplomatic breadth during an active military conflict with Iran.

### Strategic Context
Posted during an intense period of Iran war escalation, this Cuba story serves as counternarrative: while the administration wages war, it simultaneously pursues diplomacy elsewhere. This is standard communications shop work — diversifying the news cycle and projecting competence across multiple foreign policy fronts.

### Psychological Significance
Minimal. The post reveals nothing about Trump's internal state. It functions as institutional messaging rather than personal expression. The absence of editorializing (no "GREAT!", no superlatives, no personal credit-claiming) further confirms aide authorship.

### Timing
Posted at 13:54 UTC = 8:54 AM ET. Trump was at or near Doral, Miami for the House Republican retreat. This is squarely business-hours posting — consistent with staff scheduling.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Cuba confirms talks with Trump officials" | **True** | This claim is overwhelmingly confirmed by at least 10 independent major news outlets reporting on the same event. On March 13, 2026, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel publicly confirmed during a televised 90-minute news conference (broadcast by state media) that his government was engaged in diplomatic talks with the United States. Key details corroborated across sources:

1. **Who confirmed:** Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel made the public confirmation. A Trump administration official separately confirmed the talks to ABC News, stating the U.S. is 'talking to Cuba.'

2. **U.S. officials involved:** Secretary of State Marco Rubio led discussions for the Trump administration. Rubio and his aides met with Cuban representatives 'at least half a dozen times in recent months' per ABC News.

3. **Cuban officials involved:** Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro (grandson of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro) served as Cuba's main counterpart, per the Miami Herald (reported Feb 26, 2026) and Fox News. Former President Raúl Castro was also said to be involved. Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuba's chief of mission in the U.S., provided additional details.

4. **Timeline:** Trump first called on Cuba to 'make a deal' in January 2026. By February, Trump claimed the U.S. was negotiating with 'the highest people in Cuba.' The Miami Herald identified Rodríguez Castro as the main Cuban contact on Feb 26. Díaz-Canel's public confirmation came March 13, describing talks as 'in their first phase' with negotiators working 'to establish an agenda.'

5. **Context:** The talks occurred amid a severe Cuban energy crisis following the U.S. cutting off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Cuba had not received fuel shipments for over three months.

6. **Trump's response:** Trump confirmed Díaz-Canel's announcement by reposting an article about it on Truth Social.

The USA Today headline accurately reflects the confirmed event. This was reported by CNN, NBC News, ABC News, Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg, CBS News, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and others, with a Wikipedia article documenting the full timeline of the 2026 Cuban crisis. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- No original commentary
- Clean formatting with colon-separated headline and link
- Business hours (8:54 AM ET)
- No emotional language, caps, or superlatives
- Professional news-sharing format

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-03-28._

> Cuba confirms talks with Trump officials

**TRUE**

This claim is overwhelmingly confirmed by at least 10 independent major news outlets reporting on the same event. On March 13, 2026, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel publicly confirmed during a televised 90-minute news conference (broadcast by state media) that his government was engaged in diplomatic talks with the United States. Key details corroborated across sources:

1. **Who confirmed:** Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel made the public confirmation. A Trump administration official separately confirmed the talks to ABC News, stating the U.S. is 'talking to Cuba.'

2. **U.S. officials involved:** Secretary of State Marco Rubio led discussions for the Trump administration. Rubio and his aides met with Cuban representatives 'at least half a dozen times in recent months' per ABC News.

3. **Cuban officials involved:** Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro (grandson of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro) served as Cuba's main counterpart, per the Miami Herald (reported Feb 26, 2026) and Fox News. Former President Raúl Castro was also said to be involved. Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuba's chief of mission in the U.S., provided additional details.

4. **Timeline:** Trump first called on Cuba to 'make a deal' in January 2026. By February, Trump claimed the U.S. was negotiating with 'the highest people in Cuba.' The Miami Herald identified Rodríguez Castro as the main Cuban contact on Feb 26. Díaz-Canel's public confirmation came March 13, describing talks as 'in their first phase' with negotiators working 'to establish an agenda.'

5. **Context:** The talks occurred amid a severe Cuban energy crisis following the U.S. cutting off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Cuba had not received fuel shipments for over three months.

6. **Trump's response:** Trump confirmed Díaz-Canel's announcement by reposting an article about it on Truth Social.

The USA Today headline accurately reflects the confirmed event. This was reported by CNN, NBC News, ABC News, Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg, CBS News, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and others, with a Wikipedia article documenting the full timeline of the 2026 Cuban crisis.

Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/americas/cuba-president-us-talks-intl; https://www.nbcnews.com/world/cuba/cuba-president-miguel-diaz-canel-talks-us-trump-blackout-oil-rcna263323; https://abcnews.com/Politics/cuba-us-confirm-high-level-negotiationsafter-trump-predicts/story?id=131049007; https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuban-president-admits-talks-trump-admin-fuel-blockade-chokes-domestic-energy-supply-economy; https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/cuba-crisis-energy-oil-diaz-canel-us-talks-trump-rubio.html; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/cuba-confirms-with-talks-as-us-with-trump-pushes-island-to-brink; https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/cuba-miguel-diaz-canel-announcement-prisoner-release-march-13-2026/; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/13/cuba-us-secret-talks-trump-pressure/; https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/26/cuban-president-says-raul-castro-involved-in-us-talks-amid-oil-blockade; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Cuban_crisis; https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/03/13/cuba-confirms-talks-trump-economic-deal/89132765007/

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- diplomacy (80%)
- cuba (90%)
- staff-posted (90%)
- news-share (100%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**A war ordered by dinnertime, a reporter called a maggot by teatime, and not one word about the dead.**

Trump posted sixteen times on Friday, mostly from his Doral resort in Miami, where House Republicans were holding their annual conference. The day was bracketed by the Iran war: a furious post just after midnight attacking the New York Times and boasting about killing Iranians, then, after a long and largely routine stretch of endorsements and a Kennedy Center renaming announcement, an evening declaration that the US had carried out one of the most powerful bombing raids in Middle East history on Iran's main oil hub. He never once mentioned civilian casualties, including the roughly 175 schoolgirls killed in a US strike that the Pentagon had just elevated to a formal investigation — instead he called a New York Times reporter a "maggot" and threatened to add her to a lawsuit. He slept a normal eight hours and spent most of the daylight hours on ordinary political housekeeping, which makes the switching striking: three minutes separated the attack on the reporter from a polite personnel announcement. The day ended on its highest note, not its angriest one — a two-sentence victory declaration that Iran itself was "dead," posted while the war was still escalating.

Full digest for 2026-03-13: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 13). Cuba confirms talks with Trump officials, raising... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116222200536303389
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Cuba confirms talks with Trump officials, raising hopes for..." Truth Social, 13 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116222200536303389. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Cuba confirms talks with Trump officials, raising hopes for...," Truth Social, March 13, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116222200536303389.

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