Well, to be fair... George I and George II started it, poking Señor T while he was being boo-ed and picketed in Hawaii on his way to prepared cheering crowds in... well, at least Manila. I'm sure by now you've heard about historian Mark Updegrove's new book, The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. The "blowhard" description of Trumpanzee was all over the Internet on Saturday. Trump's populism has as much to do with their vision of America as... well, let's put it like this: Bush I admits in the book he voted for Hillary. Their views are way more in synch with the Clinton's than with Trump's. Peter Baker's NY Times piece yesterday was a news story, not a book review.
President Trump is not a favorite in the extended Bush household. Former President George Bush considers him a “blowhard,” only interested in feeding his own ego. Former President George W. Bush, his son, thinks Mr. Trump fans public anger and came to office without any understanding of the job.And both worry that Mr. Trump has blown up a Republican Party that they spent two lifetimes building, a party that was once committed to removing boundaries to trade and immigration, promoting democracy and civil society and asserting a robust American leadership role in the world, according to an author who has interviewed them.A new book on the two Bushes who served in the White House provides a glance at their apprehension over Mr. Trump’s rise to power and what it means for the country. The first book ever written with their cooperation about their relationship, it also opens a window into the only father-and-son tandem to hold the presidency since John Adams and John Quincy Adams.In The Last Republicans, Mark K. Updegrove chronicles an era that feels almost dated in today’s reality-show politics, when the Republican establishment controlled the party and Washington, and when a single family could occupy the presidency and vice presidency for a combined 20 years.Neither of the two Republican former presidents voted for Mr. Trump-- the father voted for Hillary Clinton and the son voted for “none of the above,” as he told Mr. Updegrove.Indeed, at one point during the 2016 presidential campaign, the younger Mr. Bush confided to the author, “I’m worried that I will be the last Republican president.”
Trumpanzee went ape-shit, although at the point I was writing this he hadn't tweeted and just allowed the White House communications staff express his feelings about the Bushes. Weak tea though. They told CNN that the younger Bush's war in Iraq was "one of the greatest foreign policy mistakes in American history," which it was but what does Trump know about American history? In a statement to the Washington Post, that cretinous monster daughter of Huckabee's who Trump uses as a mouthpiece, told The Hill that "The American people voted to elect an outsider who is capable of implementing real, positive, and needed change-- instead of a lifelong politician beholden to special interests. If they were interested in continuing decades of costly mistakes, another establishment politician more concerned with putting politics over people would have won."Sarah Huckabee Sanders by Nancy Ohanian
