Donald Trump Once Mocked The Same George H.W. Bush Quote He Used To Remember Him

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Source: Huff Post





12/01/2018 07:34 am ET Updated 10 hours ago

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President Donald Trump praised his Republican predecessor for inspiring generations of Americans “to be, in his words, ‘a thousand points of light’ illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world.”

Trump was quoting Bush’s reference to volunteerism in his 1988 Republican National Convention speech.

However, Trump had a decidedly different view of Bush’s “thousand points of light” concept during a campaign rally in Montana back in July.

He whipped the crowd by mocking the philosophy:

“The thousand points of light, what the hell was that by the way? Thousand points of light, what did that mean, does anyone know? I know one thing, Make America Great Again we understand. Putting America first, we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one. What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? And it was put out by a Republican, wasn’t it?”



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Trump is pure mean!!


Check out the video from the 59-minute mark here:

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Trump didn't write that statement.

It had to have been prepared some time ago by WH staff in anticipation of GHWB's demise. It was released within an hour after the announcement of the death, and there's no way a semiliterate knucklehead like Trump could have written that release in such a short time. Or ever. He probably never even saw it.

[Izzy Blue]

4. You got it that right

And whoever did write it was an idiot to have mentioned "The Thousand Points of Light".

[rurallib]

22. If Trump had written it, he would have called HW "weak"

[Demonaut]

2. who believes they wrote that??..you could always tell when Obama wrote condolences

[dalton99a]

3. To him, kindness is weakness

and it is the duty of rich people to steal from poor people

[rickyhall]

6. To him, thinking is weakness!

[CBHagman]

23. You've summed it all up.

Multiple journalists have pointed out that Roy Cohn, lawyer to Joseph McCarthy, among others, mentored Trump and established the "attack, counterattack, never apologize" M.O. Others have noted that cruelty is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's career and policies.

But more than once Trump has attempted to use words, such as verbs help and love, to suggest he cares what happens to people besides himself, and it always rings hollow. As you say, "To him, kindness is weakness," and he'll never be caught showing humility, putting someone else first, making a sacrifice for the common good.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Telling Cheeto Benito a metaphor

is about as useful as telling it to peat moss.

[IrishEyes]

8. Honestly, it is not very well written.

Of course, it was not written by Trump. It was someone on Trump's staff and they wrote it awhile ago. They probably have a prepared statement read for certain people. It is a cold form letter. The person who wrote this did not do a good job.

[Raine1967]

9. He served in the Military BEFORE he went to Yale.

They got that part very, very wrong.

He joined the military (I believe after the Pearl Harbor attacks) and became the youngest aviator in the Navy. After his service, He went to Yale where he served as the captain of its baseball team.

[Qutzupalotl]

10. Or Trump deliberately used the quote he mocked Bush Sr with at his funeral.

Trolls gonna troll.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Let's hope he's not invited to the funeral.

Who would want to listen to a tRump brag-a-thon at your friend or relative's memorial?

Oh wait.....they're called deplorables.......

[karynnj]

19. As President he will be invited, let us hope he is not asked to speak

For Trump that would be an insult, but he likely had little relationship with him.

[Achilleaze]

12. republican draft dodger is totally lacking in integrity

and honor. What a disgrace the republicans have imposed upon America.

[EarthFirst]

13. That reads like a sixth-graders' book report on a biography of HWB

Even as such; Individual 1 did not write that.

[Snellius]

14. With the Mocker in Chief on this one

In its political/historical context, that "thousand points of light" pitch, which in eulogy everyone praises as so sweet and kind and giving and Mr. Rogers, was just hypocritical sweet talk for saying "Take care of yourself. We're not going to waste your hard-earned tax dollars to do it. We need it to fight the commies."

[Scarsdale]

15. Barbara was "the love of his life"??

Wasn't she the one he considered divorcing to marry Jennifer Fitzgerald, his long time love? He was told a divorced man could never be president, so he tabled those plans. Must have really corked him when Reagan was elected (divorced) Then twice (soon to be three times) divorced tRump. These republican family values are hard to keep track of.

[Snellius]

16. Suppose unkind words will have to wait until he's under the grass

but at the time 41 seemed no less a self-styled, ambitious egotist and country-club hypocrite than any of the other Repubs. Trump more brash and classless. Sr. just wrapped it in a Connecticut Mr. Rogers' cardigan.

[Scarsdale]

20. Before the gop starts

to canonize him as they do Reagan, just getting the truth out. GHW was not all he seemed.

[Snellius]

21. After long they start to believe their own self-canonization.

Always gets to me, for those of us old enough to remember who they really were, like Reagan (went to Berkeley in the 60s) to hear them deified as great men, even by Democrats today who have weaned themselves on more of the right-wing-Limbaugh-Fox News bullshit than they even realize. Even MSM today is still pushing the narrative that his biggest mistake was not honoring his "read my lips" tax pledge. Ignoring his real sin was supporting Reagan's spend and cut, trickle-down crap in the first place. Thanks for your post. 41 deserves what he deserves.

[Bengus81]

17. I rememeber when Michael Dukakis said he sees 300 million points of light...

Those 1000 were just HW's rich buddies...........

[Roy Rolling]

18. Tempted

I'm tempted to believe Trump wrote this because it capitalizes "Nation" like only an idiot like Trump does.

But the fact it's longer than one paragraph is proof he didn't.