It didn’t matter if it was three hours or three years after Donald Trump was elected, the depression was and is so profound and the desire for any kind of authentic statesman was palpable. I hated George W. Bush and his eight years in office so much. Loathed him in a really deep way. I wasn’t alone there at all. But as soon as Trump became our baby-fisted Nazi dictator, even liberals like me were suddenly like “Sh-t, Dubya wasn’t ALL bad.” We were legitimately waxing nostalgic on the Bush years and falling for W. Bush’s friendship with Michelle Obama. (Sidenote: George & Laura Bush were always completely respectful and kind towards the Obamas, so I really don’t have any shade for them there.) Anyway, my point: I really have to force myself to remember that the Bush Years were awful and that the Bushification (or the Karl-Rovification) of the GOP led to Trump. So with that in mind, Bush said words this weekend:
A Message from President George W. Bush@TheCalltoUnite pic.twitter.com/FIn9wuOPTF
— George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) May 2, 2020
For what it’s worth, Bush mostly went underground during the Obama years, but he’s definitely signaled a few times publicly that he’s not into Trump’s energy at all. As for the video, I… honestly don’t believe that Bush had a political agenda here at all. I don’t think this is some kind of entrance into the “politics of 2020.” I think he simply wanted to give a message of hope and unity for the country. And we’re so lacking in those kinds of big, apolitical and frankly humanitarian messages that people were truly talking about Bush as the great American uniter or something this weekend. And of course that made the Orange One mad. We all hate it when he’s mad.
.@PeteHegseth “Oh bye the way, I appreciate the message from former President Bush, but where was he during Impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside.” @foxandfriends He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2020
Reader, I laughed. Trump is mad that Bush suggests that we need to unite as a nation during the pandemic so we can take care of each other, and Trump wonders where this call for unity was during Trump’s impeachment. I can’t. Tweetledumb is just so f–king stupid.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
I’m going to admit something here.
I cannot stand to read Trump’s tweets. I read your analysis of them instead. Thank you for saving me from the orange muppet’s words.
When I read his tweets I hear Stephen Colbert doing the voice. Makes them a tad more tolerable.
Haha me too! Either Colbert or Seth Meyers.
I’m with you – I can’t look at him, I can’t listen to him, I can’t read his words.
However I love the suggestion of hearing Stephen Colbert‘s voice, that would make it possible, thank you.
You also really don’t need to read his tweets at the end of the day the messages are all the same it’s all about him. Me, me, me, is really all he saying anyway.
I hate his tweets. Its one of the reasons I like Maddow, she refuses to read his tweets on the air.
Cause to Trump his impeachment was a humanitarian crisis on the same level as 65000+ dead. Tells us what we need to know about this anus-mouthed Ayatollah. Vote blue, y’all.
But even if Bush had called for “putting partisanship aside” during impeachment, it would have been a call for Republican senators to step up and actually do the RIGHT thing instead of the party thing.
Same thoughts exactly!
So, if that’s the case, in a way, I kind of agree with … I can’t believe I’m saying this … Trump.
Where *was* W during the impeachment investigation/’hearings’? Why couldn’t he have stepped up with a call for unity and “putting partisanship aside” and putting the needs of the country, the Constitution and what’s right first back then? He could have stepped up as an Elder Republican Stateman … still respecting the office and the authority of the Presidency but underscoring the power and the RESPONSIBILITY of the Senate on serious matters.
Bush’s message this week was good though.
yay! LOL!
Trump having a tantrum once again… I am not a fan of violence but I want to slap him so bad lol I’m sorry guys, and he is not even my president
I’m with ya.!!!
A Trumpertantrum!
He’s not my president either. I voted for Hillary!
Meghan McCain may be voting for Biden.
Maybe the rats are finally leaving the ship.
She’s a horrible, entitled, mean person. Plenty of reasons to vote for Biden, but that’s not one of them. And while Trump’s tantrums should not be given any credence, none of us should be looking to Bush for any advice, considering what he did to Iraqis and to the people who suffered in his own country from Katrina. Trump’s awfulness is no reason to rehabilitate Bush, who was just as awful in different ways.
What? I used the word “rats”. I don’t see how your reply tied to what I said.
It’s funny how human being almost all are a mix of good and bad. Even you, Mumbles. Even YOU.
Let’s not sanitize W., he has plenty of flaws, but Trump has more than we could ever dream of, it’s embarrassing.
Meghan may vote for Biden and crow about it, but her husband runs a FAR right media company that pushes a LOT of Trump’s hateful, dangerous nonsense, so I take her protest vote with a grain of salt.
And she is a board member of said media company. It would not surprise me if she and her her mother have put a lot of money behind it.
She ain’t gonna chose between voting for Biden and her husband. I don’t believe her.
I hated George W. Bush and his eight years in office so much. Loathed him in a really deep way. I wasn’t alone there at all. But as soon as Trump became our baby-fisted Nazi dictator, even liberals like me were suddenly like “Sh-t, Dubya wasn’t ALL bad.” We were legitimately waxing nostalgic on the Bush years and falling for W. Bush’s friendship with Michelle Obama.
SAME Kaiser. I hope all the former Presidents campaign for Biden over the summer and fall. Our country cannot continue like this with the orange ass clown in the White House.
SAME. I NEVER thought I would wish for the days of W., but holy cow – I would pay good money to go back there right now.
SAME. This is the first time in my life as a Canadian that I’ve had to deal with a horrible politician. US politicians have an effect on Canada, but not usually an adverse one. (There’s an old saying, when America sneezes, Canada catches a cold.) I remember being gobsmacked when Bush was elected a second time, I could not believe Americans would do that to themselves. Man was I ever stupidly naive when it came to bad first world leaders.
I say to my husband all the time – Trump was the best thing that happened to W and his legacy.
He’s a war criminal and, more recently, he actively campaigned for Brett Kavanaugh. Never forget.
Yeah, W may have brief moments of good, but they get lost in a sea of bad.
I do hope he uses whatever influence he has left to sway some Republicans to Biden though.
Mindblowing to me how much the liberal media has helped sanitize his legacy. Bush is a monster. His administration was full of monsters. It speaks volumes that we’re so upset about Trump because his incompetence and politicking effects U.S. citizens and not a statistical amount of brown people abroad. Really, the Bush administration is what started laying the bricks to allow somebody like Trump to get in power.
Thank you Veronica, I’m rubbing my eyes over here.
How do you need to be reminded of Katrina and Iraq? Or is it just that white American citizens are now dying instead of brown foreigners? And the complacent tone of it. My God I’m disgusted.
There is so much awfulness from the Bush administration that a lot of people forget. Remember how he fired all those US Attorneys because they weren’t towing his line? Or how hiring for even civil service positions were vetted for political views? His cabinet was full of zealots. His goons tried to bully Ashcroft in the hospital to approve warrantless searches against American citizens. He stacked the courts with young ideologues whose only qualifications were membership in the Federalist Society. And that’s not even counting the horrible war he ginned up, and the Katrina disaster.
He’s as bad as Trump. He might even be worse.
It’s the passage of time. However, in my opinion, no one is as bad as Trump, but Bush 2 was pretty bad. Difference being that they were more polished as they subverted our laws and when it was over, W stepped off the stage and left the Obama administration alone. Trump doesn’t care to understand, is an incredibly flawed human being, lies about everything and his people simply just don’t give a damn about this country.
Bush I was pretty bad. Bush II was really bad. Trump, with the complicit Republican Senate is an absolute disaster, nightmare and ongoing threat to the viability of the country.
But Trump wouldn’t be President and wouldn’t be capable of so much evil without Reagan, Bush I and Bush II paving the way with all their courtesans and enablers and power mongers.
I thought Bush (and Cheney and Rumsfeld) were as bad as it could get, but they really were just laying the foundation for Trump. They were like the beta version of Trump’s authoritarian regime.
And please don’t forget Richard Nixon.
Trump was interviewed in front of the Lincoln monument, whining that he has been treated worse than Lincoln. I honestly think he doesn’t know that Lincoln was assassinated, he’s just that stupid.
Your last sentence!! Sad but true! The only Lincoln Trump knows is emblazoned on the back of a car.
The comment I would like to make about this would probably get me banned. Haha.
I still hate him and nothing will change that. Just because he was not talking into every microphone available doesn’t mean he wasn’t doing damage behind the scenes, the current example cold calling for Doughboy Kavanaugh and supporting his seat on the Supreme Court. It wasn’t respect, it was having enough sense to read the room and talk out of both sides of his mouth when out in public.
Can someone slap him?
Which one?
Both. But the orange one harder. Wear gloves when you do.
Hahahaha yes please
How about a ten foot pole with a nettle-juice-impregnated paddle attached, @Sojaschnitzel? That’s the closest I’m getting to War Criminal and Tango Mussolini.
Man, that picture of him sitting there with his arms crossed is his presidency personified – a giant, bloated man baby pouting because he is not getting everything he wants every single time.
If Shrub, who is just dumber than a bag of hammers, can manage to get this message across, then there is zero reason the current president can’t.
And his supporters are just as bad. Benedict Bonespurs has given them everything they ever had wet dreams about, especially the first 2 years when Rethugs controlled all 3 branches of government. Yet they were, and still are, angrier than ever. Frothing at the mouth with rage. Just look at the protesters with their guns. They maintain a massive victim complex, these few with the most privilege. The truth is, they will never be happy until all POC are purged from the country and all progressives/dems/libs are locked up, and everyone that remains thinks exactly as they do. Even then, they would STILL find something to be angry about. They are all deranged idiots.
The body language in that photo tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about this childish, petulant and narcissistic human.
RE: Shrub
I always remember what Jon Stewart said about him
“No, He’s not stupid. But he thinks WE are!”
Also, somewhere in the back of my mind, I think that if Jon Stewart hadn’t retired from The Daily Show, Trump never would have become President. The Daily Show would have vetted Trump in 2015 and pointed out his assininity in ways that the mainstream media failed to do because: ratings.
“Oh bye the way” it’s spelled BY! Idiot.
Was just thinking that I hope the “Daily Show” catches this grammatical error…
Seriously.
I was coming here to say that! I just can’t with him. November can’t come soon enough.
Do people realize that Trump is not encouraging his supporters to be bigoted versus anyone who looks Asian? his new message is blame china for my incompetence during Covid-19?
Governor Cuomo turned down (thx gosh) his nonsense request to do a briefing together! no one who wants to be believable should deal with Trump
I detest him so much; please please for those who are Americans, let’s vote this trash out of office
This is why the lesser of two evils approach is flawed. You can make anyone look good if you can find someone else shitty enough to compare them to.
AMEN.
If only that theory had held true in the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary.
It did.
“I’m a uniter, not a divider.”
God, thanks for putting all the 01-07 memes back into my head!
Oh, looks like baby Huey is at it again.
Bush is a war criminal and should always be remembered, and treated, as such. He was also dumb as a rock, prone to (international) gaffes…granted, he was not as unhinged or infantile as our current president. To me, personally, they’re one and the same. The only difference being..Bush administration caused an imaginable destruction overseas while Trump is busy plunging his own country into darkness.
TL,DR: Bush was as bad Trump but for slightly different reasons.
Bush is a war criminal, responsible for tens of thousands of deaths of innocent people. He ignored warnings prior to 9/11 because his month long vacation was more important to him than giving a simple order to put air marshals on planes and tighten up what could be brought on board, thousands of Americans died as a result. He ignored the FEMA warnings that the Super Dome would not withstand Katrina but did not pass that information to the city or state and did nothing to accelerate evacuation. After the storm, he delayed rescue for days and declined help from other countries, including a French hospital ship that could have been there within 48 hours and Netherlands engineering assistance and then lied, claiming nobody offered anything. Again, thousands of Americans died. At the time of his presidency, he was considered barely literate and could hardly put an articulate sentence together without a gaffe. I have no love for Bush or any of his family.
However, he could, at times, show concern for other human beings. He could sympathize or empathize. He could offer condolences. Trump has not, cannot, and will not. It infuriates me to say that, in this horrible time, George W. Bush would have handled it much, much better.
I think with Bush there was a massive disconnect between his cruel, sometimes inhumane politics and his ability to be a decent, warm human being one-on-one. It’s why the Obamas get along with him and it’s why that image is so jarring to us. I think he just can’t grasp abstract concepts, that’s why he could be talked into a war etc. Not for one second do I believe he actually ran sh*t behind the scenes.
I can’t believe George W. Bush just made me feel okay with being American for a few minutes. THAT folks. THAT is the speech a president is supposed to give during a time like this. They’re supposed to unite us and give us hope and determination to survive this. Not create chaos and division and pit states against each other. UNITED states. I forgot what it felt like for a President to make me feel a little bit comforted during a tough time.
And yes, I realize I’m saying this about George W. Bush.
“Bye” the way, Dump probably can’t stand that Bush is no longer considered the stupidest president in U.S. history.
Given how GWB is a war criminal…. I cannot believe I completely choked up watching that video. It was d*mn near perfect.
Same. This is some next level Twilight Zone when war criminal GWB can seem like a caring and capable leader.
The Lincoln Project, a group of well connected anti-trump Republicans are running some very striking ads against trump. In an alternate reality we’d be on opposite sides, but “the enemy of my enemy …”
https://twitter.com/projectlincoln/status/1257264160213217285?s=21
The thing is, people with the same basic values, such as “America is and should always remain a democracy*” and “The Constitution is good” and “Public Servants should uphold their oaths of office and not commit crimes *every* freaking day” aren’t actually enemies, even if their ideas about HOW to live and express those values in our nation can vary. Left and Right can support those values, conservative and liberal can support those values. There is no reason why they couldn’t or shouldn’t.
But those people, by their very nature, can and should oppose Trump and Trumpism and whatever the heck McConnell is doing in/to the Senate for lo these many years.
*Okay, technically a republic.
I will be so happy when 🍊🤡 is ⚰️. I will do backflips that will make Simone green with envy.🍔🍟🍗🍨🍨⚰️.
Both of them are terrible presidents. I’m not crazy about Biden either, but damn he better win.
History will remember the Orange Idiot as the result of what happened in the US when celebrity culture ran amok.
Several years ago I was taking a tour of the State Capitol building in Sacramento. When we got to the gallery of presidents, the guide said “And this is where DT’s portrait will hang” and he couldn’t hide his contempt. He was kind of laughing derisively like he couldn’t believe he was actually saying those words. (Unfortunately that portrait is now up.) Anyway, I really believe that future generations will do the same: laugh and snort when they speak of the time that we had a buffoon in the White House.
You’re making a really big assumption there. With Trump as President, with THAT particular buffoon in the White House, there is no guarantee there WILL be future generations.
Yeah, that’s a bit extreme, but honestly … the chances of future generations surviving and thriving was much higher during the Obama presidency than they are with whatever the f0ng heck the Orange Menace is doing.
Trump whines about everything.
“Mission Accomplished”?
Trump is basically the toxic person we’ve all known at some point who makes EVERYTHING about themselves and their drama. It’s all petty grudges, all the time. He is the world’s oldest, never-maturing seventh grader.
Trump whining? Well, that’s on brand.
It’s OK to be a murderer and war criminal as long as you get on well with Michelle Obama. Message received.