President Donald Trump faced backlash after endorsing Honduran presidential candidate Tito Asfura and saying he would pardon former President Juan Orlando Hernández. Several critics took to social media following the update from Trump,

After 12 years of the conservative National party, whose last president Juan Orlando Hernández is serving a prison sentence in the U.S., and now four years of Castro’s social-democratic Libre, Hondurans have tried both ends of the political spectrum and neither has satisfied their basic demands for jobs and safety.