US President Donald Trump vowed Monday to "take" Cuba as the communist island plunged into darkness under a total power blackout linked to a crippling oil embargo imposed by Washington.

Donald Trump claimed he 'can do anything he wants' with Cuba while predicting he'll 'have the honor taking Cuba' during his presidency.

President Trump escalated his threats to seize Cuba this week — raising questions about whether he might seek to topple the Communist Caribbean island's leader Miguel Díaz-Canel. The big picture: As Cuba's totalitarian government faces a deepening energy crisis that saw an island-wide blackout amid a U.

President Donald Trump relished the idea that he will “be having the honor of taking Cuba,” adding he “can do anything I want” to the country. “It’s a beautiful island,” the president told reporters Monday about the communist nation about 150 miles away from Florida before fantasizing of Cuba becoming an American state.

President Trump said Monday that he expects to have the “honor” of “taking Cuba,” days after the island’s communist government acknowledged it was in talks with the US. Trump refused to say whether potential US intervention in Cuba would be more like Venezuela or Iran – while asserting he can do “anything I want with” the island,