President Donald Trump appeared to joke during remarks at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida Friday that the U.S. would be "taking over" Cuba "almost immediately," while recognizing attendees including former Rep. Dan Mica.

"And he comes from, originally, a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately," Trump said.

"Cuba’s got problems. We’ll finish one first. I like to finish a job."

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Trump then riffed on a hypothetical show of American force.

"On the way back from Iran, we’ll have one of our big — maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier — the biggest in the world," he said.

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"We’ll have that come in, stop about 100 yards offshore, and they’ll say, ‘Thank you very much, we give up.’"

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