Bush disagrees with Trump, says press not an ‘enemy’

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Former President George W. Bush believes President Trump is off track by fighting the media and speaking out against Islam in speeches and in his executive immigration order.

Bush didn’t directly criticize Trump in an NBC interview on Monday, but he used his own time in office to contrast with what how the current president is using the presidency. When asked about Trump’s spats with the media, Bush said he never considered the press the “enemy of the American people,” as Trump said last week.

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