Trump: US better off if Obama, Bush had ‘gone to the beach’

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President Trump ripped President George W. Bush and President Obama for poor leadership overseas and ignoring problems at home, and said America would be better off if both leaders had done nothing.

“If our presidents had gone to the beach for 15 years, we’d be in a lot better shape than we are right now,” Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. “We could have rebuilt the country three times for that money,” he added, referring to the $6 trillion spent in the Middle East since 2000.

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