As co-sponsor of his visit, it was frustrating to see the airways filled with banal slogans of peace and love from a man with no political experience, “zero” understanding of the economic implosion happening all around him and the fawning support of every god-fearing, biggoted commie-basher on the island.

Renaldo could at least have provided pointers as to why the same implosion was not happening in Cuba, if they’d given him the airtime.

So they didn’t.