Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the first six months of President Trump’s time in the White House have been “exhausting” while also criticizing Trump’s Twitter habits.
Bush, a former rival of Trump’s during the 2016 Republican primaries, told Univision that it feels like “the whole world has been turned upside down” under Trump and gave him an incomplete grade for his first six months in office.
“It’s exhausting,” Bush said. “I mean it’s an incomplete grade in the sense that not much has been done. But it feels like the whole world has been turned upside down. He’s created controversy where there is no need for it. He should lead. All of this tweeting and the pushing down people to make himself look better is not helping.”
“In the world, he has not dealt with a major crisis yet, but there are three or four brewing,” Bush said. “I hope and pray for him and his family and I pray for my country and I hope that he assumes the mantle of leadership that he has not yet done.”
The former Florida governor also criticized the Trump-backed proposal to reduce legal immigration into the U.S., although he agreed that a merit-based system would be a good decision. The bill, known as the RAISE Act and sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., would cut legal immigration by nearly 50 percent over 10 years.
“A merit-based system would be helpful for our country,” Bush said. “But I think we ought to take full advantage of it and not just restrict the number of legal immigrants coming in.”
