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riversedge

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Sat Dec 1, 2018, 11:04 PM Dec 2018

Donald Trump Once Mocked The Same George H.W. Bush Quote He Used To Remember Him [View all]

Source: Huff Post





12/01/2018 07:34 am ET Updated 10 hours ago

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President Donald Trump praised his Republican predecessor for inspiring generations of Americans “to be, in his words, ‘a thousand points of light’ illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world.”

Trump was quoting Bush’s reference to volunteerism in his 1988 Republican National Convention speech.

However, Trump had a decidedly different view of Bush’s “thousand points of light” concept during a campaign rally in Montana back in July.

He whipped the crowd by mocking the philosophy:

“The thousand points of light, what the hell was that by the way? Thousand points of light, what did that mean, does anyone know? I know one thing, Make America Great Again we understand. Putting America first, we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one. What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? And it was put out by a Republican, wasn’t it?”



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Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-george-hw-bush-thousand-points-of-light_us_5c026ee4e4b04fb211685473



Trump is pure mean!!


Check out the video from the 59-minute mark here:









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Trump didn't write that statement. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #1
You got it that right Izzy Blue Dec 2018 #4
If Trump had written it, he would have called HW "weak" rurallib Dec 2018 #22
who believes they wrote that??..you could always tell when Obama wrote condolences Demonaut Dec 2018 #2
To him, kindness is weakness dalton99a Dec 2018 #3
To him, thinking is weakness! rickyhall Dec 2018 #6
You've summed it all up. CBHagman Dec 2018 #23
Telling Cheeto Benito a metaphor Cirque du So-What Dec 2018 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Jarqui Dec 2018 #7
Honestly, it is not very well written. IrishEyes Dec 2018 #8
He served in the Military BEFORE he went to Yale. Raine1967 Dec 2018 #9
Or Trump deliberately used the quote he mocked Bush Sr with at his funeral. Qutzupalotl Dec 2018 #10
Let's hope he's not invited to the funeral. KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2018 #11
As President he will be invited, let us hope he is not asked to speak karynnj Dec 2018 #19
republican draft dodger is totally lacking in integrity Achilleaze Dec 2018 #12
That reads like a sixth-graders' book report on a biography of HWB EarthFirst Dec 2018 #13
With the Mocker in Chief on this one Snellius Dec 2018 #14
Barbara was "the love of his life"?? Scarsdale Dec 2018 #15
Suppose unkind words will have to wait until he's under the grass Snellius Dec 2018 #16
Before the gop starts Scarsdale Dec 2018 #20
After long they start to believe their own self-canonization. Snellius Dec 2018 #21
I rememeber when Michael Dukakis said he sees 300 million points of light... Bengus81 Dec 2018 #17
Tempted Roy Rolling Dec 2018 #18
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