It popped up overnight along the Palmetto Expressway in the Miami Lakes area near the Northwest 67th Avenue exit, just north of Hialeah: A billboard comparing former president Donald Trump to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
“No to dictators — no to Trump,” it says in Spanish, with The Donald and the dead oppressive Communist criminal regime leader facing each other on opposite ends of the giant, bright red sign.
The billboard says it is paid for by Mad Dog PAC, a national political action committee opposed to Trump regaining the White House. They have placed billboards all over the U.S. reminding voters of just what kind of wannabe tyrant the former POTUS is, although this is their first en Español.
“He wants to be another dictator and just as evil as Fidel Castro was,” said Claude Taylor, a former Bill Clinton staffer who is the PAC’s founder and chair.
In fact, Ladra is certain that if Fidel were alive, Trump would find something nice to say about his leadership skills, just as he has fawned over Vladimir Putin and North Korean strongman Kim Jung Un, who The Donald said was a “great leader” in 2019. Trump also said that North Korea had “tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited” and vowed to help the regime achieve its goals.
Last year, he made the now infamous statement to his pal Sean Hannity about becoming a dictator if he were re-elected — just on Day One though, so he could close the border and “drill, drill, drill.”
Then in February, he said he would encourage Putin to wage more wars and do “whatever the hell they want” to any NATO member country that did not pay its fair share, explaining that the U.S. would not honor the collective defense clause that is the crux of the multinational alliance.
“I said, ‘Everybody’s gonna pay,'” Trump said at a South Carolina rally. “They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.’”
During the campaign, he has as much as admitted that his second term would me marked by a slew of retaliatory actions, an expansion of the power of the Oval Office, interference with the justice system and a massive purge of federal government employees. Even journalists are potential targets, as one of Trump’s allies, a likely cabinet member, said “we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.”
That sounds very much like Fidel Castro.