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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow - Babs blamed the orange hitler for her heart attack, said she is no longer Repuke.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-ea2a0847-9d81-4b92-9a42-59f6c1bade30.html?chunk=2&utm_term=twsocialshare#story2"Barbara Bush blamed Donald Trump for her heart attack," begins a new excerpt from "The Matriarch," an inside look at the former first lady from USA Today's D.C. bureau chief Susan Page out next week.
Just before the first anniversary of Trump's election, Bush said, "I'm trying not to think about it. We're a strong country, and I think it will all work out."
And asked last year if she was still a Republican: "I'd probably say no today."
"'I dont understand why people are for him,' she said in one interview. In another, she expressed astonishment that women could support him."
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stuff for the popcorn feedbag.
JHB
(37,161 posts)...I doubt she points a finger at the people responsible for the current state of the Republican party: The same people who worked so diligently to get her husband and son into office.
Although she might have words for the ones who turned on her husband after he made the last wheezing gasp of Republican fiscal responsibility and supported a modest income tax hike.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)And having a grand old time until later in the evening, when one of them took a dump on a living room floor: "That Sigur - he's just so . . . so rude!!"
True Dough
(17,314 posts)the worst First Lady in history? The guy keeps lowering the bar. It's gotta be below the surface by now.
deminks
(11,017 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)too bad we don't still have her. She'd be a wonderful ally!
FM123
(10,054 posts)I remember reading a funny fake tweet he said about Jesus - "Jesus was a loser. A failed carpenter. He's a savior because he was crucified. I like people that weren't crucified" and thinking that sounds exactly like something that idiot would actually say....
Javaman
(62,533 posts)True Dough
(17,314 posts)the (William) Barr was gone, too!
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)That would be elevating Hillary.
True Dough
(17,314 posts)It's a bit of a conundrum. Maybe he says Barbara is "just as bad as Hillary." Anyway, ol' weasel nuts will likely find some way to bite back.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)Oh man Trump is not going to like this, so the media should not talk about this all day over and over.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)"After Trump was elected, a friend in Kennebunkport gave her a Trump countdown clock as a joke. The red, white, and blue digital clock displayed how many days, hours, minutes and seconds remained in Trumps term."
She liked it "so much that when the Bushes returned to Houston that October, she brought it with her. It sat on her bedside table, where she could see it every day. It was there to the day she died."
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Barbara Bush said stress from Trump led to her June 2016 hospitalization for a heart attack, though it was technically part of her long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease.
I'm gonna go with the congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease at the age of 90 and a little less drama.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)It is a daily barrage of the most bizarre crap that oozes out of the Shit House that used to be the White House. The new color is Brown and a Stinky.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,410 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)progressoid
(49,997 posts)I'm sharing to Facebook so I can gloat!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/27/barbara-bush-blamed-trump-heart-attack-leaving-gop-the-matriarch/3270187002/
Barbara Bush: Did she still consider herself a Republican? 'I'd probably say no today.'
58Sunliner
(4,394 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)of Iraq or the treatment of Hurricane Katrina victims?
She was also a vile human being.
BigDemVoter
(4,156 posts)Barbara Bush had NO business bitching about Trump when her own son stole the presidency and set us on this ugly path. Barbara Bush was a rich and entitled asshole.
I am not going to be seduced into saying, "Oh she was great!" She wasn't.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)They didn't care much about anything else. So it was a personal thing, not an ideological thing.
Bush, Jr. showed up to rally support for Kavanaugh, and has done other things to help Trump, while maintaining his personal dislike for him.
I look at behavior, rather than words.
Wounded Bear
(58,703 posts)until they are out of office or dead. Nobody brings this shit up when it might actually make a difference.
Sorry Babs, not buying your book or your story.
corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)I never dreamed that she would sacrifice party loyalty. Now we know how far Herr Drumpf has dragged the GOP and nation. Stunning!
Staph
(6,253 posts)I had endometrial cancer in 2013 - surgery, chemo and radiation. The doc gave me a 65% chance of five-year survival.
I was healthy as a horse until the election of 2016. I was physically and mentally destroyed by the results.
Eight months later, I was in the hospital with severe anemia, caused by a bleeding ulcer. In diagnosing the ulcer, they discovered my cancer had returned. And they say I have one to three years left.
And now he wants to ax the ACA and slash Medicare. I just can't anymore. I only hope I survive to see him out of the White House and headed to jail for ever.
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)Folks I'd never have imagined I'd be allied with but yes I am.