Multiple liberal political commentators compared former President Trump’s address at the RNC to late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s famously long speeches.
Multiple political commentators and reporters compared former President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention to the speaking style of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Castro, who died in 2016, gave famously long speeches, including remarks in 1960 that went for 4 hours and 29 minutes at the United Nations. Trump spoke for about 92 minutes in a primetime nomination acceptance speech Thursday that went past midnight.
« Somewhere in hell, Fidel Castro is jealous », CNN’s Paul Begala said Friday.
« This was Castrolean in length », MSNBC host Alex Wagner said on Thursday. « Michael Beschloss pointed out that [former Soviet Premier Nikita] Khrushchev and Castro tended to give long stem-winders, kind of incoherent ones, as they were aging, and it’s symptomatic of a party that indulges in a cult of personality that has put all its chips on the persona of one individual and their frailties and strengths.
