Former president makes thinly veiled swipe at US president’s cuts to HIV and aids initiative
George W Bush has issued a rare critique of Donald Trump over his shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The former president joined Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono in an emotional video call farewell with staff at the agency on Monday when it officially ceased operations.
After six decades, the humanitarian organisation created by former president John F Kennedy to promote US national security by boosting prosperity and goodwill abroad, is being absorbed into the State Department under the supervision of Marco Rubio.
Then do something about it. I’m sick of the words all across the board from republicans. The only things they’re actually doing is shitty things like the nazis did. You guys made trump and his administration, you are the only ones that can fix it now.
He won’t. I think Bush knows on some level that he’s responsible for a lot of awful shit in the world and desperately wants to rehab his image, but not enough to actually take responsibility for it or do anything meaningful so he just paints his dumb pictures and says vaguely critical things about Trump once in a while. But at times when it might actually matter, like during the last election when him speaking out could have potentially swayed some Republican voters away from Trump, not a fucking peep.
As it turns out, Dick Fucking Cheney has a stronger moral compass than Bush does, which I hope sinks in for him one day.