Cuba appears to be next on Donald Trump’s hit list.

The president appeared to suggest US-assisted regime change in the communist-run Caribbean island is on his agenda during a speech Thursday while hosting Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates at the White House to celebrate the club’s MLS Cup victory.

Trump began his remarks — with the players standing behind him — by giving an update on the Iran war.

While thanking the alleged “phenomenal people” involved in the military operations, Trump turned to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was in the audience, to praise his “fantastic job” and also his “fantastic job on a place called Cuba.”

Rubio’s parents fled Fidel Castro’s regime for America and he has been one of Washington’s most outspoken critics of the island’s leaders.

But what’s happening with Cuba is amazing. And we think that we want to fix, finish, this one first. But that will be just a question of time before you and a lot of unbelievable people are going to be going back to Cuba. Hopefully not to stay. We want you back. And we don’t want to lose you. We don’t want to make it so nice that they stay. But some people probably do want to stay. They love Cuba so much. I hear it all the time. That was another one that wasn’t supposed to happen.

Later in the event, Trump congratulated Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas, also the son of Cuban immigrants, for his team’s victory and again returned to the subject of Cuba.

Trump told him he could soon be traveling back to the island.

“You’re going to go back,” said Trump. “Oh yeah. Yeah. It’s going to be — and you won’t need my approval. You just fly back in when — I can just see that. It’s going to be a great day, right? We’re going to celebrate that separately. We, I just want to wait a couple of weeks. I wanted to wait a couple of weeks, but we’ll be together again soon, I suspect, celebrating what’s going on in Cuba. They want to make a deal so badly, you have no idea.”

Trump has previously floated the idea of a “friendly takeover” of the island amid mounting pressure from Washington for political change in the Cuban government.