George W. Bush and his father, George Bush, are publicly savaging President Donald Trump, starting with the stunning revelation that they never voted for him – and they hate him and everything he stands for!
Dubya said he left the presidential ballot blank in 2016 instead of voting for President Trump.
His dad, George Herbert Walker Bush, said he actually voted for Hillary Clinton instead of the Republican candidate.
The shocking admission comes after years of compliments the Bushes showered on the Clinton family.
George H.W. Bush admitted he thinks of sexual predator Bill Clinton as his “brother from another mother.”
George W. Bush said that Hillary Clinton is “my sister-in-law!”
If you want to know how cozy Washington’s one-party state is, just think about this: The last two Republican presidents held their breath for eight years of Barack Obama’s corruption. But now they can’t spend enough time trashing the president who’s threatening to clean up D.C.
“I don’t like him,” the older Bush said. “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.”
His son said that Trump just “doesn’t know what it means to be president.”
The shocking quotations come from May 2016, before Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination – but three months after the third Bush, Jeb, dropped out of the race.
They’re found in a new biography of the Bushes by Mark Updegrove called The Last Republicans, because the Bushes believe they will be the last Establishment Republican presidents.
Lord, hear our prayer.
Some people have excused George H.W. Bush, who is now 93. Coincidentally, ’93 was the year he left the White House after voters drummed him out of office for breaking his “No New Taxes” pledge.
But the Bush family has no excuse for being a leading part of the D.C. Swamp’s war against Trump and smearing the commander-in-chief in a very public way.
Without saying Trump’s name, George W. Bush said publicly that President Trump promotes “casual cruelty,” “bigotry,” “conspiracy theories, and outright fabrication.”
Big words for a man whose administration claimed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.
The Bush family has been made up of rich, New England, elitists and career politicians going back to George W.’s grandpa, Senator Prescott Bush. Politics is the family business and, for three generations, business has been good.
Trump is a billionaire, but his family says he has more in common with the construction workers he employs than the black-tie-and-tails crowd.
“Donald Trump represented everything that the Bushes abhorred,” Updegrove told CNN.
Maybe that’s why the Bushes are trying to destroy Trump for making the GOP a more blue-collar party, and they never said a word during the Clinton or Obama years.
The Bushes were harsher against Donald Trump than Democrat Jimmy Carter, who said the media has been “harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about.”
Meanwhile, Trump is being attacked by both Bushes, John McCain, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, and other Establishment nobodies.
The Bush’s dislike may have another cause: Trump didn’t save their sinking political career 25 years ago.
In 1992, Republican chairman Lee Atwater asked Trump about running with George H.W. Bush as vice president.
Bush was in big trouble for lying to the voters about tax hikes in 1988 and being generally out-of-touch. Plus, he wanted to dump conservative Dan Quayle.
He’d run on Ronald Reagan’s coattails in 1988, but in office, he’d lost an 80 percent approval rating.
Trump was a Republican and supported Bush but told Atwater, “It doesn’t sound right.”
Without a popular running-mate to pull him up, Bush went down in flames.
Trump left the Republican Party for the Independence Party in 1999 and later called for George W. Bush to be impeached.
An unnamed White House official told CNN that President Trump thinks the Bushes comments are not worth paying any attention.
The source packed in about as many jabs against the Bush family as possible.
“President Trump remains focused on keeping his promises to the American people by bringing back jobs, promoting an ‘America First’ foreign policy, and standing up for the forgotten men and women of our great county,” the source said.
Ouch.
The Bushes broke campaign pledges and passed job-killing tax and environmentalist policies.
The “New World Order” they talked about establishing sounded like the opposite of “an America First foreign policy.”
And if Trump does make America great again for the “forgotten men and women” of America, the Bushes will be the ones who are forgotten.
— The Horn editorial team