--- ---  # Watch Live: President Trump Is About to Rollback Obama's Cuba Policy by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 16, 2017 2:39 PM UTC  US President Donald Trump and National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base for Miami, Florida on June 16, 2017. US President Donald Trump and National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base for Miami, Florida on June 16, 2017.Photograph by Mandel Ngan—Getty/AFP by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 16, 2017 2:39 PM UTC [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4817893/donald-trump-jr-steve-scalise-shot-twitter/) will announce his plans on a new Cuba policy at a news conference in Miami on Friday. The President is expected to rollback some of the relations established by former President Barack Obama. Trump’s new policy is expected to reduce U.S. money going toward Cuba’s military and security forces, while continuing to allow American airlines and cruises to provide service to the island, [according to the Associated Press](http://time.com/4821150/donald-trump-cuba-policy/), to maintain diplomatic relations. Before taking office, Trump [called for a full reversal of Obama’s Cuba policy](http://time.com/4583419/donald-trump-cuba-fidel-castro/) in order to create a “better deal.” Trump will speak about his policy changes in the Cuban neighborhood of Little Havana in Cuba at 1 p.m. E.T. You can watch it live above Donald Trump to Announce New Cuba Policy: Watch Online ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4821406/watch-online-donald-trump-cuba-live-stream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4821406/watch-online-donald-trump-cuba-live-stream/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Trump Is About to Rollback Obama's Cuba Policy","datePublished":"2017-06-16T14:39:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:11:13.516Z","description":"Trump called for a full reversal of Obama's Cuba policy during the campaign","url":"https://time.com/4821406/watch-online-donald-trump-cuba-live-stream/","keywords":["Foreign Policy","Cuba topic","livestream","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c3a6d9d948bf0e6/6988d201e76ad284d262deee/gettyimages-696587980.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c3a6d9d948bf0e6/6988d201e76ad284d262deee/gettyimages-696587980.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald-trump-cuba-policy","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-DEPARTS","creditText":"Photograph by Mandel Ngan—Getty/AFP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/foreign-policy/","name":"Foreign Policy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4821406/watch-online-donald-trump-cuba-live-stream/","name":"Watch Live: President Trump Is About to Rollback Obama's Cuba Policy"}}]}] ```