Prepare for Trump's Despicable, Disgusting, and Deplorable Fans to Turn on President George W. Bush

[DemocratSinceBirth]

President Trump has never had a very cozy relationship with the House of Bush. In the Republican primaries, Trump made it his mission to destroy Jeb (!), his sworn enemy. And to his credit, Trump was one of the few 2016 Republican candidates to publicly admit that the whole Iraq War thing was kind of a fuck-up (even if he still lies about his own timeline with his revelation). Yet the man in charge of that debacle, President George W. Bush, never called the press an "enemy of the people" when it (belatedly) turned on him as things all went to hell. Bush had an enduring respect for the role of a free, independent press in a democratic republic, something he emphasized, again, in an interview on the TODAY Show this morning:

"One of the things I spent a lot of time doing was trying to convince a person like Vladimir Putin, for example, to accept the notion of an independent press," the 43rd president told Matt Lauer. "It's kind of hard to tell others to have an independent, free press when we're not willing to have one ourselves."

He added: "Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power." Looks like we're about to put all that to the test.


http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a53461/george-w-bush-free-press/

[pangaia]

1. Sorry, 30 seconds is all I can take. What a simple-minded moron..

He added: "Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power."

Well, you should know........george.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. He looks good compared to Drumpf.

Spam would look good next to cat food.

[pangaia]

9. True that...

[dalton99a]

3. Yes, the bromance

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Putin hadn't revealed himself to be a menace at that time.

Nobody is against good relations with a Russia that acts constructively.

[dalton99a]

6. True. That was before the power-switching operation with Medvedev

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Yeah. Let's not fall into the trap.

We don't oppose Russia just to oppose Russia. We oppose Russia because it undermines democracy domestically and internationally.

[hedda_foil]

5. I watched this clip and realized that Bush has a good 20 IQ points over Twitler.

[inwiththenew]

7. I have to imagine there is a great deal of animonsity after the primaries

Trump was relentless in his attacks on Jeb and W. I mean in the debate a year ago he blamed Bush for 9/11 and said he lied our way into Iraq. That right there is not shocking but for someone in the Republican party to say that raised a lot of eyebrows at the time.

I'm just waiting for Trump to hit back at W and throw Jeb in just for good measure.

[world wide wally]

10. I want to see a debate between Bush and Trump

Then watch a panel of 10 year olds analyze it since I'm sure they could understand all the vocabulary.