Bush On Country Under Trump: I Don’t Like The ‘Racism’ And ‘Name-Calling’

Former President George W. Bush speaks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Hiring Our Heroes program and the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative national summit, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, ... Former President George W. Bush speaks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Hiring Our Heroes program and the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative national summit, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. The summit focuses on creating employment opportunities for post-9/11 veterans and military families. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) MORE LESS
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Former President George W. Bush is a little disheartened by the state of the country under President Donald Trump, but the former President said he is still “optimistic” about the future of the United States.

“I’m optimistic about where we’ll end up. I mean, yes, I don’t like the racism, I don’t like the name-calling, and I don’t like the people feeling alienated. Nobody likes that,” Bush told People Magazine about the state of the U.S. in an interview published late Monday. “On the other hand, we’ve been through these periods before and we’ve always had a way to come out of it. I’m more optimistic than some.”

His comments come after a Monday morning interview on NBC’s “Today,” during which he addressed Trump’s executive order temporarily barring travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

“I think it’s very important for all of us to recognize one of our great strengths is for people to be able to worship the way they want to, or not worship at all,” Bush told NBC’s Matt Lauer when asked about the order. “The bedrock of our freedom – a bedrock of our freedom – is the right to worship freely. I understood right off the bat, Matt, that this was an ideological conflict, and people who murder the innocent are not religions people. They want to advance an ideology, and we have faced those kinds of ideologues in the past.”

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  1. “On the other hand, we’ve been through these periods before and we’ve always had a way to come out of it.” (GWBush)

    Well, yes, we went through similar situations when you were in the White House … then we came out of it by electing a competent leader.

  2. Avatar for gajake gajake says:

    RINO, right?

  3. The right to worship freely…taken advantage of daily by the adherents of the violent, racist political religion called Conservatism.

  4. Avatar for jep07 jep07 says:

    Whether he says it or not Bush and everyone else knows this is a mess they can’t fix now that Trump’s coronated.

    Bush knows something fundamental that the entire DC establishment from Texas to Minnesota and Coconut Grove to Venice Beach knows just as well, something the general public has yet to fully comprehend or even beleve is possible, even though it is dancing a jig on the graves of our dead patriots, before our very eyes

    TRUMP’S SCANDAL IS IMMINENTLY WORSE THAN WATERGATE!!

    There were no Russians in Watergate!

    How can that profound difference be ignored?

    The Intelligence Committee is made up of patriots and traitors.

    By the end of this day, we wil know who is which.

    Anyone on the committee who votes to protect Trump’s treason will join a rogue’s list tattooed on American history.

    I swear I will do everything I can to remove them from office, and everyone should make the same commitment. to seek permanent revenge at the ballot box.

    I am not alone in this passion, and it is not new to our nation and our creed as a People united, the righteous anger that kindles in my democratric heart whenever we hear them covering up Trump’s traitors must surely be the way our patriot predecessors felt when King George used them like draft animals

    The public retribution for the damage those liars and cheats impose upon us will be like nothing we’ve seen since the Viet Nam era, it will eclipse even that.

    … don’t hope for the best here, the Republlicans are proving to the rest of us American citizens that WE are not their national fellows, we are just something to use-up and cast off for the benefit of their chosen, global circle of prosperity and power.

    We’re just their economic mules. Allowing us a voice in our own governance is the big mistake they are now desperate to reverse.

  5. Yeah, but, Pres.Obama has to keep the decorum, as the immediate predecessor.

    It is up to GWB to critizise the current line in the WH, so I am thankful he speaks up.

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