Sen. Ted Cruz smokes Obama, Trudeau for their feckless statements on Fidel Castro's death [video]

As Twitchy reported, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement on the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was so ridiculously laudatory that it inspired its own hashtag game, #TrudeauEulogies — not that the White House’s was much better.

CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller called it “carefully-worded to avoid condemnations of his decades of dictatorship,” and he was being kind — President Obama and company left it to “history” to pass judgment on the “enormous impact of this singular figure” on the Cuban people and the world.

Others in government were much less kind in their send-offs of Fidel Castro, and on Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Ted Cruz took the Senate floor to proclaim we should all be thankful Castro had moved on to “warmer climes.” He also blasted Obama and Trudeau for ignoring decades of tyranny in their official statements.

For 60 years, Fidel exploited & oppressed the people of Cuba. His life and legacy is no cause for celebration. https://t.co/NcxFN6wIFH

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 30, 2016

We remember & honor the brave souls who fought the lonely fight against the totalitarian Communist dictatorship. https://t.co/NcxFN6wIFH

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 30, 2016

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Here’s an excerpt:

.@TedCruz: "Today we are thankful that [Fidel Castro] … is no longer with us. He has departed for warmer climes."

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

Cruz, bringing up Obama and Trudeau: "The race is on to see which world leader can more fulsomely praise" Castro w/o recognizing oppression

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

Cruz: People like Castro "not these sexy, unshaven revolutionaries on posters in college dorm rooms that make leftists go all tingly inside"

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

.@TedCruz on Obama sending aides to Castro funeral: I suspect the U.S. "differences" w/ Castro "were not mentioned in the funeral pamphlet."

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

.@TedCruz on Cuban relations under Obama: He's "strengthened tyranny just 90 miles from our shores."

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

.@TedCruz: “A dictator is dead, but his dark, repressive legacy will not automatically follow him to the grave."

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

.@TedCruz: This ought to be a moment where Cubans are dancing in the street, but if you dance in the street right now, you'd be jailed.

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

Cruz, cont'd.: "They were brutal monsters, and we should always remember their victims."

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 30, 2016

The left thinks #communism is about equality. There is nothing equal about Cuban communism other than the equality of suffering & misery. pic.twitter.com/FQSFFmPrWo

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 30, 2016