Bush teams up with notorious Trump foes to trash ‘colossal mistake’ shuttering USAID

The New York Post ^ | 07/03/2025 | Emma Colton

[thegagline]

Former President George W. Bush joined up with former President Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono to comfort United States Agency for International Development employees Monday, while also taking shots at President Donald Trump and his administration for shuttering the agency plagued by accusations of fraud and abuse.

“Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy,” Obama said in a video that was shown to departing USAID employees Monday, according to the Associated Press. “Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.”

Obama summed up the decision to shutter the agency as “a colossal mistake,” and added that “sooner or later, leaders on both sides of the aisle will realize how much you are needed.”

Bush, Obama and Bono spoke to departing USAID employees Monday in a videoconference as the agency officially was shuttered following the Trump administration’s reporting that it was overrun with alleged corruption and mismanagement. The videoconference did not include members of the media, with the Associated Press reviewing and reporting on clips of the conference later that day

*** Bush, who overwhelmingly has shied away from publicly criticizing Trump, lamented in his recorded message to the staffers that the end of USAID marks an end to his administration’s work rolling out an AIDS and HIV program that is credited with saving 25 million people nationwide.

” You’ve showed the great strength of America through your work — and that is your good heart,’’ Bush told USAID staffers, according to the Associated Press. “Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.”***

[thegagline]

And to think, not too long ago, that people were excoriated and worse for expressing their opposition to Bush.

[BradyLS]

Going through withdrawal, are they?

[Flavious_Maximus]

If you don’t want to get AID’s then stop engaging in sodomy or unsafe sex. Why should the US taxpayer subsidize filthy degenerate orgies? The homo’s can pay for the treatment themselves. /spit

[dfwgator]

[null and void]

W, as in Withdrawal, as in personal loss of W's USAID funding?

[Phoenix8]

So true. The only time I never voted for President (since Reagan’s second run I was old enough) was in his second term. I just couldn’t stand either of them so I stayed home drank beer and listened to angry Rock. every year since stories like this show how wise I was. Jorge Bush….monkeyman.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Both parties were/are involved in fleecing the American taxpayers. Kill USAID completely!

[dfwgator]

Probably where the money came from to buy his rotten paintings.

[libertylover]

Obama summed up the decision to shutter the agency as “a colossal mistake,”

No, it was a monumental success.

[CodeToad]

Stay out of the Bushes! I didn’t vote for that coke head!

[hal ogen]

Don’t go into the bushes.

[dfwgator]

Only time I agreed with Jesse Jackson.

[BenLurkin]

Charity begins at home.

[SaxxonWoods]

USGRAFT going down?

I’ll survive somehow.

[x]

Bono’s getting the band back together.

Is Bill Clinton going to play sax?

[Ann Archy]

TOTAL BULL CRAP!! Did Bush get a KICKBACK from USAID???

[LuxAerterna]

George Bush confirmed what many of us already suspected. Demturds weren’t alone dipping into USAID slush fund.

[Norski]

Thought Bono was an Irish citizen.

[mewzilla]

Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius

Saying that shutting down USAID will kill millions is like saying your local grocery store shutting down will cause your entire town to die of starvation.

Human beings will figure it out.

Just not on Uncle Sugar’s dime.

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[No name given]

I believe he is, actually.