President Obama began a historic visit to Cuba on Sunday, becoming the first president to do so since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. The trip to the Communist country is, of course, divisive — meaning Republicans flipped a burger over it.
Cuban-Canadian-American and mouthpiece for the GOP fringe, Ted Cruz penned a Politico Op-Ed condemning Obama’s visit. In it, Cruz says it’s “injurious to our future” for Obama to “legitimize the corrupt and oppressive Castro regime with his presence on the island.”
Fellow GOP candidate Donald Trump chose an outsider’s medium to express his disapproval with Obama’s Cuba trip:
Wow, President Obama just landed in Cuba, a big deal, and Raul Castro wasn't even there to greet him. He greeted Pope and others. No respect
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2016
The Trump tweet was a sort of bugle call for right wingers on Twitter to start typing their own half-baked, free-associative critiques of the visit:
US @Potus snubbed right away. He shows up w/entire family, to be met by functionaries. Raul Castro missing. More embarrassments to come.
— Mike Gonzalez (@Gundisalvus) March 20, 2016
Obama in Cuba Day 1: 1-Raul snubbed him, didn't show up to greet at airport; 2-Ladies in White got roughed up/detained; 3-rained like hell
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) March 21, 2016
Yet Obama surrounded by 100 secret service feels a sense of accomplishment going to communist Cuba. Friends with the Devil. His norm. #tcot
— Anna Teresa Arnold (@HomerWhite) March 21, 2016
Obama went to Cuba to pick out his cell at GITMO. He will be spending the rest of his life there. #tcot @realDonaldTrump
— ✞♕In God I Trust♕✞ (@InGodIDoTrust) March 21, 2016
JFK rolling over in his grave as Obama goes to Cuba to kiss up to tyrants who almost nuked America. #tcot #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/2jszy2OEB1
— Michael Nöthem (@mikandynothem) March 20, 2016
Welcome to #Cuba, Mr. Obama! We've thrown some more dissidents in jail just for you. https://t.co/L2qvC8s3fX pic.twitter.com/cDnbFO2LrS
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) March 21, 2016
