Donald Trump attacks George W. Bush on 9/11, Iraq

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0xDEAFBEAD · 2026-01 · Reference

People forget that Iraq was a key wedge issue which allowed Trump to gain mindshare within the GOP: [VIDEO] A fairly optimistic way to spin this situation is as follows. Either it somehow works out for Venezuela, in which case we effectively helped millions of people Homer Simpson style. Or, more likely, failure disgraces Trump the same way it disgraced GWB. Then (fingers crossed) we elect a humbler, more realistic leader who works to rebuild the country we wrecked, and we can move on from the Trump era.

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WillPostForFood · 2025-08 · Reference

Trump launched MAGA by attacking the Iraq war, and the Bush family. This is 2008: “When she first got in and was named speaker, I met her. And I’m very impressed by her. I think she’s a very impressive person. I like her a lot. But I was surprised that she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost – it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would’ve been a wonderful thing,” Trump told Blitzer in the interview. “Impeaching him?” Blitzer asked. “Absolutely. For the war. For the war,” said Trump, referring to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “Well, he lied. He got us into the war with lies, and I mean, look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant and they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies. By lying. By saying they had weapons of mass destruction. By saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.” And in the 2015 Debate attack Jeb. [VIDEO]

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rayiner · 2025-05 · Reference

> The USA’s global influence and entanglements goes all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine and grew substantially after WWII The U.S. had virtually no engagement with the world outside the western hemisphere between the GOP’s formation in 1854 and World War I. Between Lincoln’s election in 1861 to World War I tariff rates exceeded 40%: [LINK] > It still doesn’t explain how he won the GOP primary the first time and continues to maintain a cult-like following. He won the primary because he curb-stomped Jeb Bush on live TV and called for immigration bans when Rubio was proposing amnesty. [VIDEO] . He maintains a cult-like following because he’s the first republican in recent memory to actually deliver conservative victories instead of blowing all their political capital on wars. Since he took office in 2016, conservatives have ended affirmative action, overturned Roe , cut border crossings nearly to zero, established a legal framework for prosecuting DEI under the civil rights laws, ended disparate impact, shut down entire federal agencies, raised tariffs for the first time since the 1960s. We might get a $45 billion budget for ICE! I’m not even covering everything in the EOs, which have gone under the radar because everyone is flipping out over tariffs. Trump makes clear that Bush/Cheney republicans weren’t even trying. > If the poll numbers are to be believed, isolationists and nationalists never made up more than a slim percentage of the American electorate until very recent

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