President Donald Trump floated the idea of a “friendly takeover” of Cuba as the Trump administration’s oil blockade had amped up pressure on the nation’s communist regime.

“The Cuban Government is talking with us,” Trump told White House reporters on Friday. “They’re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money, they have no anything right now. But they’re talking with us, and maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.”