Former President George W. Bush jokes frequently that President Trump’s current administration makes his own administration look “pretty good” in comparison, according to a Republican source who spoke with the National Journal.
Bush, who has publicly remained quiet in his criticisms of his successors, is reported to regularly poke fun at the current administration, not understanding why the Trump White House always seems to be in disarray.
“Without chiming in with the Trump critics, Bush is often heard to remark, unable to stifle his trademark smirk: ‘Sorta makes me look pretty good, doesn’t it?’” the National Journal reported in reference to Trump’s current administration.
“He’s shaking his head like everyone else wondering why they can’t get their act together,” the Republican source told the Journal. “He wants the guy to succeed but thinks a lot of his problems are self-inflicted.”
Bush 43 on Trump: “Sorta makes me look pretty good, doesn’t it?” – per @nationaljournal‘s Tom DeFrank pic.twitter.com/X0KBDdDQdw
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) March 6, 2018
Bush, unlike President Obama, has been reserved in going after his successors, but his father, George H.W. Bush has been more vocal.
“I don’t like him,” the 41st president said of Trump in a book by historian Mark Updegrove. “I don’t know much about him, but I know he’s a blowhard.”
George H.W. Bush also told Updegrove that he voted for Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
