Tears to Truth: Obama and Trump React Very Differently to Castro’s Death

By Selwyn Duke

If you like your Castro, you can keep your Castro? Some may think this is Barack Obama’s attitude, given the president’s comments after Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s death on Friday. In contrast, president-elect Donald Trump gave the tyrant the epitaph he deserved.

Posting his message at Facebook, Trump wrote:

Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve.

Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty. I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba. 

For Obama’s part, he walked a line while speaking of a man who ever stepped over the line — and on his own people.

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