Trump Compared to Fidel Castro by CNN, MSNBC After Speech

(DailyVantage.com) – Former president Donald Trump has once again been compared to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro after his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) ran for a lengthy 92 minutes.

Trump’s address before the crowd at the RNC was the former president’s first time to take the podium again after the failed assassination attempt against him in Pennsylvania on July 13. Following the attempt on his life, Trump had reportedly restructured and rewrote his speech to accept the RNC’s formal nomination for him to be the party’s front-runner in the presidential elections later this year. Trump’s speech at the RNC this year set the record for the longest acceptance speech ever given by a major candidate of the party.

Trump spoke at length on a number of issues, such as highlighting his accomplishments during his last term and his supposed excellent handling of the COVID-19 crisis that gripped the country at that time, and bandied his policies that he said protected Medicare and Social Security. He also took a few potshots at prominent Democrats, such as President Joe Biden and California Representative Nancy Pelosi.

Some observers were quick to jump on the bandwagon of comparing Trump to Castro, who was also famous for giving long, rambling speeches. Comparisons of Trump to Castro are not new, with a Democrat PAC launching an ad campaign in Florida comparing the former U.S. president to the late long-time Cuban head of state.

MSNBC host Alex Wagner called Trump’s speech “Castrolean in length,” while CNN anchor Paul Begala quipped that “Somewhere in hell, Fidel Castro is jealous.” Technology reporter and journalist Kara Swisher said that the speech was “off the rails.”

President Biden also jumped into the cesspool of comments on Trump’s RNC acceptance speech, going as far as to putting up a thread on Twitter / X to outline the “distinct misfortune” of listening to Trump’s speech. At the time of the RNC, Biden was in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.