NEW YORK (AP) — Former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager is registering her opinion on Republican President Donald Trump’s order temporarily suspending immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations with the words of her father, former President George W. Bush.
Bush Hager posted an excerpt on Twitter Tuesday from a 2001 speech her father, a fellow Republican, gave at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. following the 9/11 attacks. Her father said, “Islam is peace” in his remarks. He added that Muslims “make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country” and called for them to be “treated with respect.”
Bush Hager said in her tweet that the speech is a reminder “to teach acceptance and love to our kids for all races, all religions.”
Bush Hager is now a correspondent for NBC News.
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I’m not sure I can handle a world where I miss George W. Bush’s administration.
I always gave Bush full credit for not allowing the WoT to become a war on Islam. I don’t have to agree with anything else he ever did, but in this one aspect at least he was a shining example of that it means to be “presidential”
These are strange times, when Jenna Bush is a voice of sober rationality.
How very unkind! Then she was a young person; today she’s an adult. Her point is well taken and helpful. Am grateful for her remarks. Not a Bush-fan, but I think their family’s response to Trump was somewhat helpful. (Minus JEB, of course.)