Former White House hopeful Jeb Bush said he didn’t know “which Donald Trump to believe” on Wednesday as he watched the Republican presidential front-runner deliver a major speech about U.S. foreign policy.
“[His] recent speech about foreign policy, you can’t — I don’t know which Donald Trump to believe,” Bush told CNN on Thursday.
“The one that read from a teleprompter a speech that was inside the lines or the one that wants to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, or [impose] a 45 percent tariff on China, or abandoning NATO, or saying it would be a smart thing to have Japan and Korea kind of go it alone and build their nuclear capability to deal with China,” Bush said, citing a handful of Trump’s most controversial statements about foreign affairs.
The former Florida governor, who was Trump’s biggest critic until he ended his White House bid in February, said that when it comes to Trump, “there’s two of them.”
“I think we need a president with a steady hand [and] the idea that a president should be unpredictable is not really the way history has been written,” he said, criticizing Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. take an unpredictable course of action against the Islamic State.
“The successful presidents have been clear about their vision, have laid out the agenda on foreign policy and our friends know that we have their back and our enemies fear us and there’s a constancy by American leadership,” Bush told CNN.
“[Trump] is proposing the exact opposite,” he added.
In addition to his foreign policy speech, which Trump delivered in Washington, the billionaire is expected to give a series of speeches on immigration and education policy in the coming weeks. His campaign has yet to release additional details about the upcoming addresses.
