When my brother was killed, Bush listened while I screamed at him & then held, you fat f-ing liar

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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@realDonaldTrump When my brother was killed, Pres Bush listened while I screamed at him & then held me as I sobbed, you fat fucking liar.

I read that President Bush caught Hell from some Gold Star mothers as well as families of wounded vets he visited at Walter Reed, He just took it. He told his aides if that's how they feel they earned the right to feel that way.


Trump is a golem.

[mac56]

1. It's strange times when I can point to Dubya as a good example for ANYTHING.

It's a strange strange world we live in, Master Jack.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. There are a few "private instances" that show Dubya isn't a " fundamentally bad guy" like Trump.

The instances where he consoled the Gold Star mothers as they blamed him for the death of their child.

When he went to his alumni reunion and one of his classmates had gender reassignment surgery and he was totally nonchalant about it. Imagine Trump in that situation.


Even Nixon had redeeming qualities. He was a doting father.

Trump has no redeeming qualities. He's a wreck of a human being.

[thesquanderer]

4. I agree, I don't think W is a bad person.

I think he wasn't smart enough to avoid being manipulated by people with bad intentions.

All indications, though, are that Trump is simply a despicable person. Or, to be as charitable as I can be, severely psychologically damaged.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Trump

Trump reminds me of a guy who would get two homeless men to fight with a promise of fifty bucks for the winner and then not pay the victor.

[maddiemom]

6. Dubya was also raised in a privileged bubble...

which made him rather tone deaf and clueless about the world in which most of us were raised. Although I'll never forget his mimicking a woman on death row, he really wasn't a mean spirited person, and this wasn't typical of him, except for occasional lapses that were more thoughtless than nasty. There are not enough negative words to describe Trump. He IS mean-spirited ,vindictive, and completely self-involved. It's also more and more obvious that he is rapidly going completely "off his rocker."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. We only know about Karla Fay Tucker because of Tucker Carlson's reporting.

I don't know if I can trust the source.

[lagomorph777]

2. "Golem" is a whole lot more creative than "Turd"

And descriptive.

[groundloop]

8. Don't forget that W lied us into war, and all the lives that cost

I can't be quite so generous in my assessment of him, though I do agree that 45* is worse by at least an order of magnitude.

[Bettie]

9. W was a terrible president

but he is capable of showing humanity.

The orange creature is not capable of that. He has no capacity for empathy or humanity whatsoever.

[cab67]

10. The way I've seen it phrased:

Nixon had a brain, but no heart.
Bush Jr. had a heart, but no brain.
Trump has neither a heart nor a brain.

[lpbk2713]

12. Obama had heart and brain to spare.

Trump is desperately in need of a donor of both.

[Victor_c3]

11. I abhor bush, but I can respect him for that

I was an Infantry Platoon Leader in Iraq world n 2004. I lost five soldiers under my command and I personally met the families of four of them. One of the families was absolutely brutal to me, but I took it and don’t resent them at all for their words. As a leader, I owed it to my Soldiers and to their families to give them the chance to be angry at me for their death.

As a man and a leader, you owe that to those who serve under you.


** I hate to use the term “man” like that, but I’m at a loss for a gender-neutral term for that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Thank you for your service.

The buck stops with the Commander In Chief and him or her alone.

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. As bad as he was, Bush had a few little shreds of decency in his character

I can't see any shreds of decency in Trump. He cares about only three things: his wealth, his ego, and his lust.