Posted on 03/27/2019 11:38:11 AM PDT by simpson96
[full article title: 'Putin endorsed him, for heaven’s sake!' Barbara Bush blamed TRUMP for her heart attack and kept a clock on her bedside table counting down the seconds until he would leave office]
Barbara Bush hated Donald Trump so much that she kept a 'countdown clock' in her bedroom, ticking off the seconds until he would leave office.
The former first lady died in April 2018 at the age of 92. Her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, passed away seven months later.
She blamed the current president for a flare-up of her congenital cardiac condition, a moment she thought was a heart attack at the time, according to a forthcoming book by USA Today reporter Susan Page.
And Mrs. Bush was so bothered by the brand of Republicanism Trump brought to the house where she once lived for four years that she had a hard time identifying with the GOP.
Asked last year if she still considered herself a Republican, she replied: 'I'd probably say no today.'
She couldn't bring herself to vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in 2016. She wrote in her son Jeb's name instead.
And that countdown clock was by her bedside when she died.
'After Trump was elected, a friend in Kennebunkport gave her a Trump countdown clock as a joke,' Page writes in 'The Matriarch,' which goes on sale April 2. 'The red, white, and blue digital clock displayed how many days, hours, minutes and seconds remained in Trump’s term.'
'She liked the countdown clock 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. '
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I guess with all his real estate experience he’s found a great way to live rent free in people’s heads.
Also, that cheap publicity stunt Bush41 pulled by ending his lifetime membership in the NRA. Still have more contempt for the Clintons and 0bamas, but not much more.
Barbie had a hard time identifying with Republicans long before Trump.
I believe Putin’s simple hope for a directional change in the Oval Office hardly qualifies as more devastating than losing millions of American innocents to Barbie’s rock-solid Abortion platform.
I recall a saying....Hate is like acid, it destroys the vessel in which it is contained, not necessarily the object on to which it is poured.
Worst mistake in Reagan’s career picking Bush, Sr. as his running mate. That family has never been on our side.
old crone. What do we expect from the mother of Low Energy Jeb and W the liar?
What a sick old Bitty. Her nitwit son (Jeb) started attacking Trump and he got trounced for his efforts.
How can shrubs have heart attacks??
BTW shrubbery is what you get when you have a bunch of bushes in one place, or speaking together in unison.
All of this hate of Trump is one big propaganda coup. The brainwashing of so many is rather sickening.
Needs to add another four years and four years for Mr. Pence.
Make that 8 years for Mr. Pence.
Not pro abortion enough, apparently.
It turns out not to have been his countdown she was watching.
It turns out not to have been his countdown she was watching.
I wasn’t aware, though I don’t recall either Barbara or Laura making a case one way or the other. I am disappointed in both if true. Still, carrying around anger and hate is sad for anyone.
More winning.
I never trusted her politics but I'll cut her some slack as an old lady who was upset at slights of her sons. Bottom line, she's dead and what she said doesn't really matter.
The life’s work of Bush League Republicans has been to fundamentally transform this country into North Mexico.
Trump’s agenda is to stop it.
That’s why they hate Trump.
I’d suspected for a long time she was a closet Democrat
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All of the Bush League Republicans are.
Compassionate conservatives showing their true colors.
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