oped: News flash George HW Bush...'I don't like you ,GW nor Jeb'...and by the way the only reason I voted for you and GW was because the alternative was worse...in the case of Jeb I voted,supported Donald Trump because he was a breath of fresh air ...open and honest and really supports Middle America...our troops and Law Enforcement!...you and your clan are in league with Bill and Hillary Clinton...self serving and so full of the entitlement mentality...to be blunt "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" Your time came and went and y'all need to stay in retirement and fade off into the sunset! #EndOfStory
by: Hilary Hanson
An upcoming book shows that
former President George H.W. Bush did not mince words when asked about
President Donald Trump, back before Trump had won the election.
“I don’t like him,” Bush told historian Mark Updegrove in May 2016, according to The New York Times. “I
don’t know much about him, but I know he’s a blowhard. And I’m not too
excited about him being a leader.” Bush added that Trump appeared to be
driven by “a certain ego.”
Updegrove’s
book, “The Last Republicans,” deals with the relationship between the
senior Bush and his son, former President George W. Bush. The title was
inspired by a quote from the younger Bush, who told him during the 2016
election, “I’m worried that I will be the last Republican president.”
“And it wasn’t just about
Hillary Clinton becoming president, as the Republican Party was having a
difficult time finding itself,” Updegrove told CNN. “It was because Donald Trump represented everything that the Bushes abhorred.”
The elder Bush
also said that he voted for Clinton in 2016, while his son said he voted
for “none of the above” as president and Republican candidates on the
rest of the ballot.
Their newly revealed criticisms of Trump come just weeks after George W. Bush appeared to criticize the president at a New York policy seminar, though he didn’t mention Trump by name.
“We have seen
our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” Bush said. “We’ve seen
nationalism distorted into nativism, forgotten the dynamism that
immigration has always brought to America.”
The White House
responded to news of the criticisms Saturday morning, saying in a
statement, “If one Presidential candidate can disassemble a political
party, it speaks volumes about how strong a legacy its past two
presidents really had.
Ryan Nobles
NEW: WH responds to Bush41 calling POTUS a "blowhard". Calls Iraq "greatest foreign policy mistakes in American history". via/ @NoahGrayCNN
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- Though liberals have historically been sharp critics of the younger Bush — for reasons including the decision to invade Iraq, a slow and widely panned response to Hurricane Katrina, and his administration’s wholesale embrace of torture — his star has risen in the Trump era. In the wake of Trump’s frequent inflammatory comments and constant ad hominem attacks on Twitter, many people seem to long for a president who maintained a relatively more dignified demeanor.An October survey showed that 51 percent of Democrats hold at least a somewhat favorable view of Bush. On Friday, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann — who has previously called Bush a fascist and a liar — said he owed Bush an apology and would prefer a third Bush term to Trump as president. Last year, the public went wild with glee over a photo showing Bush and Michelle Obama enjoying a brief embrace.
All the newfound nostalgia seems to ignore just how terrible many people ― especially Democrats ― thought Bush’s presidency was at the time. For many, his lasting legacies are a disastrous Iraq war and the spread of chaos in the Middle East, as well as the financial crisis beginning during his second term. Some have argued those very conditions helped fuel the rise of the far right in the United States and abroad, paving the way for Trump to get elected.This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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