Fidel Castro has died. As a nation we look to our political leaders for appropriate words of condolence and we get this…
“Fidel Castro is Dead!” - I don’t think a celebratory tweet is a fitting response from our nation or from President-elect Donald Trump. It oozes immaturity and simply panders to his base. His actual statement continues the theme.
President Obama on the other hand…
At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans - in Cuba and in the United States - with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him…
- via whitehouse.gov
Can Trump go from Twitter screeds to diplomacy? I don’t think so.
