‘Charlatans And Liars’: Rubio Torches The ‘Gray Lady’ Over Cuba Report

In a move that surprises absolutely no one familiar with the “Gray Lady’s” obsession with laundering leftist narratives, the New York Times has once again been caught peddling fiction as front-page news. This time, the target is the Trump administration’s Cuba policy, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio isn’t just calling them out — he’s incinerating the outlet’s credibility.

The Times published a sensationalist report titled, “Trump Administration Said to Tell Cuba That Its President Has to Go,” alleging that U.S. negotiators are cutting backroom deals to swap Cuba’s figureheads while leaving the broader communist apparatus intact. The story relies heavily on “anonymous” sources and reads more like a fever dream of D.C. bureaucrats than actual reporting.

Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles whose political career is inextricably linked to the fight against Havana, took to X to dismantle the report with surgical precision. “The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans & liars claiming to be in the know as their sources,” Rubio blasted.

The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans & liars claiming to be in the know as their sources. https://t.co/mfzZbeO9UT

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 18, 2026

As the primary architect of the “hardline” approach — from the Cuba Restricted List to returning the regime to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list — Rubio has consistently argued that the only real “blockade” on the island is the one the regime imposes on its own people. Whether it’s medicine, the internet, or remittances, Rubio has spent years exposing how the regime uses control as a weapon. For the Times to suggest he is now negotiating with “Raulito” Castro to keep the system in place is not just a bad lead; it’s a deliberate insult to the exile community.

But this is par for the course for the Times. This is the same “Paper of Record” that spent weeks “fact-checking” Donald Trump’s claims that FEMA neglected Republican homes — only to stay silent when FEMA itself admitted an official ordered workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” It’s the same outlet that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lacerated for questioning the president’s fitness using anonymous hacks, while previously claiming a stumbling Joe Biden was “100% fine.”

For Rubio, the Times’ Cuba piece is just the latest entry in a long ledger of institutional gaslighting. By relying on “charlatans” to push a narrative of managed transition, the Times is attempting to memory-hole the administration’s true goal: the total collapse of the Marxist dictatorship. Rubio’s message is clear: the administration isn’t interested in the Times’ symbolic reshuffling. While the “fact-checkers” continue to protect the regime, Rubio is busy reminding the world that if the regime wants the embargo to end, it can start by freeing political prisoners and holding fair elections.