In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, multiple political commentators, mainly on CNN and MSNBC, compared the former president’s lengthy acceptance speech to those long speeches infamously given by now-deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

As background, Castro died in 2018, but was known for giving overly lengthy speeches, such as a United Nations address in 1960 that lasted for an interminable 4 hours and 29 minutes. Trump, by contrast, gave a speech that lasted for a whopping 92 minutes, setting a record for length for a primetime nomination acceptance speech, but was, in contrast to Castro’s, generally interesting throughout.

In any case, those on the left used the lengthy speech to attack Trump and compare him to Castro. Among those who did so was CNN’s Paul Begala, who said, on Friday, July 19,  “Somewhere in hell, Fidel Castro is jealous.”

Begala wasn’t alone. Joining in the Trump-bashing was MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, who also compared Trump’s speech to one that might have been given by Castro. Wagner said, “This was Castrolean in length. 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.”

Similarly, another MSNBC host, Joy Reid, attacked Trump for his lengthy nomination acceptance speech and compared it to Castro’s lengthy speeches. Speaking about Castro’s longest speech, which she said she Googled, Reid said, “He didn’t quite get there.” Reid continued, “7 hours and 10 minutes at the Communist Party conference in Havana in 1986.”

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Also joining in was RINO Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, who wrote, in a snarky post on X posted on Thursday, the night of Trump’s speech, “ChatGPT produce a speech of Donald Trump rambling with random anecdotes and shout outs to the crowd that lasts longer than the average Fidel Castro speech circa 1975”

Firing back at those in the woke media who had attempted to smear Trump with their ridiculous Castro brush was Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung, who went on the attack against MSNBC and its reporting on the former president’s nomination acceptance speech in a fiery statement to Fox News Digital.

Cheung said, “These idiots either have a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome or [are too] stupid to realize what an inspiring speech President Trump gave at the convention.” Cheung continued, “But we shouldn’t expect more from dumba—- who weren’t even at the convention and tried to deceive viewers by reporting from a television set in New York that was made to look like they were in Milwaukee.”