In private dinner, George W. Bush criticizes Trump's decision to add North Korea to travel ban

[DonViejo]

Source: Business Insider





Allan Smith

In a private dinner Thursday night, the former President George W. Bush was critical of President Donald Trump's decision to place added travel restrictions on North Korea as part of his administration's revised travel ban, a source present at the dinner told Business Insider.

The source told Business Insider that Bush suggested the policy would discourage dissidents and defectors from seeking to flee the reclusive country.

Bush said the US needed to encourage such pursuits and contrasted North Korea's addition to the travel ban with the North Korean Human Rights Act that Bush signed in 2004, the source said. The law offered support for North Korean human-rights groups and dissidents.

The comments came during a question-and-answer session led by Victor Cha, who served as Bush's top adviser on North Korea and is widely expected to be Trump's pick for US ambassador to South Korea.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/george-bush-trump-north-korea-travel-ban-2017-9

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Even W is smarter than Orange Foolius.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. It is sad, but Orange guy makes Bush look normal.

[kedrys]

4. You know you're totally screwn when

you start missing Shrub AND Tricky Dick.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. Not Nixon, but Bush was nuts, but not to the degree this guy is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Bush was within the range of "normal." He was incompetent

but in a relatively normal sort of way. Republican editorialist Jennifer Rubin has this to say about the three presidents before SCROTUS:

...None of these presidents thought the office was an opportunity for self-enrichment, stoking racial divisions, demonizing immigrants or delegitimizing the free press. Pick your least favorite of the three, and he will be regarded as a giant in comparison with President Trump. Collectively, in 24 years they told fewer lies than Trump has in eight months in office. Each actually bothered to read things, appointed honorable and experienced people to high offices, filled political slots, tried to understand the issues and cared about the content of the laws they signed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/09/29/miss-these-guys-yet-you-betcha/?utm_term=.3dae633895e0

[dalton99a]

19. +1

[NastyRiffraff]

5. Dump is several orders of magnitude stupider

than even W. Bush at least could listen to his advisers. He garbled his syntax, probably because of a form of dyslexia, but even so he sounded better than Dump.

[TrollBuster9090]

9. I never thought I'd say this, but YES...

[TrollBuster9090]

8. I never thought we'd live to see that day when we have a President that makes "W" look like

...a frikkin RHODES SCHOLAR.

[geardaddy]

13. Orange Foolius

Gotta steal that one!

[Turbineguy]

3. That Dubya guy

is turning into one nicely polished turd thanks to trump.

[Aristus]

10. And the rehabilitation of The Clown Prince continues apace.

Has everyone forgotten that Dubyah was the one to elevate NK to part of the "Axis Of Evil"?

He did more to aggrandize that small, starving, isolated, diseased country than anyone else.

Trump is coasting on that scare-tactic.

[IronLionZion]

12. Twitler is the best thing that could have ever happened to W's legacy

I wonder if people said the same about Reagan or Nixon. Good God, I hope we don't get another one even worse than Trump in my lifetime.

[murielm99]

14. As much as I hate to say this,

he has a good point.

[Vinca]

15. Hell has surely frozen over. Dubya is now the voice of reason.

[NCDem777]

16. If you're dumb enough to go to NK

you deserve what happens. Why cut off an avenue for gene pool cleaning?

[mdbl]

17. That's funny coming from Bush

the same guy who called the North Korean president a pygmy

[llmart]

18. And this is how the slippery slope happens...

the bar keeps getting lower and lower for what Americans will accept as a "leader". Let's not try to pretend that W had any redeeming qualities.

He basically was just what his voters voted for "a guy you could have a beer with". That was all they cared about, which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we are today. The bar is now so low it can't even get any lower.

I'm glad I'm not going to be around to see how low the US sinks.

[xor]

20. W. isn't seen as acceptable to them anymore either.

A lot of them seem to view him on the same level as they view both Clintons. So yeah, that's a scary thought about what happens when they view even the insanity of Trump as not being batshit crazy and incompetent enough (I'm sure they wouldn't phrase it that way, but that's what it is...)