Cuban President Raul Castro responded to the unacceptable and provocative comments of Donald Trump by characterizing U.S. President's statement on Cuban Independence Day as "ridiculous and controversial".
More specifically, as Telesur reports, in
a broadcast on Cuban state television Saturday, President Raul Castro
said Trump’s imperial
castigation of the communist island as
home to “cruel despotism” were "the contradictory and clumsy
pronouncements of the millionaire magnate-turned-president on issues
of both foreign and domestic policy."
With
Saturday marking 115 years since Cuba’s victory against Spanish
colonial and U.S. military rule, Trump offered his timeworn criticism
against the country, saying, "The Cuban people deserve a
government that peacefully defends democratic values, economic
freedoms, religious freedoms and human rights. And my administration
is committed to achieving that vision.”