A very high energy fight is brewing between Jeb! Bush and the Trump family.
“I’m not going to talk about the 2016 election,” Bush said at a recent event at Yale University according to the Yale Daily News. “I’m still in therapy,” he said jokingly. Bush did, however, say that Trump is a “Republican in basically name only,” according to the paper.
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And then things got personal. Bush said that after the 2016 Republican primary in South Carolina, he returned home to children who “actually love me,” a comment that got him laughter in the crowd, and a response from Trump’s kids.
Donald Trump Jr. responded on Twitter re-tweeting a report on Jeb’s comments, adding: “Jeb! I love everything about my father. I love that he’s a fighter, I love that he has guts, I love that he’s President (all those things you’re not).” Trump added another jab, that he “Also love[s] that he [Trump] learned enough about politics in a few weeks to dismantle you piece by piece despite it being your life’s work.”
Jeb! I love everything about my father. I love that he’s a fighter, I love that he has guts, I love that he’s President (all those things you’re not)
Also love that he learned enough about politics in a few weeks to dismantle you piece by piece despite it being your life’s work https://t.co/4fcnA1AgAa
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 29, 2018
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Eric Trump responded too, writing “.@JebBush I actually love my father very much. #PleaseClap.”
.@JebBush I actually love my father very much. #PleaseClap https://t.co/YZGyUAlUNi
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) March 29, 2018
This was probably the most media attention a story from a college newspaper has ever received, and that led them to issue a clarification after other outlets began picking up their story.
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“A previous version of this article stated that Bush’s comment that he “went home to my children that actually love me” was meant as a jab at President Donald Trump. In fact, Bush did not directly refer to Trump — but he was speaking about his loss in the 2016 South Carolina Republican presidential primary, which Trump won.”
The Yale Daily News did say that they polled audience members, and 8/9 interpreted the comment as a slight at Trump, so if Jeb really was misunderstood, it’s his own fault for not speaking with more clarity.
Do you think Jeb’s comment was directed at Trump? Let us know in the comments section below.
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One of a 1000 reasons why the USA is lucky this dork got nowhere in the 2016 elections.
Jeb! is still a dumb @$$. Look, the Bushes, despite all their long lineage back to Plymouth Rock. Prescott Bush, Wall Street investment banker and United States Senator. George HW, Letterman in Baseball at Yale, Skull & Bones, War Hero, oil country wildcatter, Congressman, failed US Senate candidate, Director of the RNC, Director of the CIA, US Ambassador to the People’s Republic, failed Presidential nominee, successful Vice Presidential candidate, successor President. George W, Yale, Skull & Bones, Harvard MBA, drunk, professional baseball impresario, Governor of Texas, failed President. Jeb!, Florida Governor, failed presidential candidate. For all that, Mayflower White Trash. The same is true of the Connecticut Walkers, especially that slob, Barbara Bush. This family is pit of vipers.
The dynasty is dead. Let it go. One last hurrah with George P? Not worth your dignity.
Jeb needs to give it up. Sorry but Trump is doing a great job a President, He is draining the swamp, it is just taking some time. We are tired of being sold down the river, we needed someone that would stand up for us the US citizens and quit trying to turn us into a Communist country. Don’t waste anyones money running again because you won’t win.
This spoiled, bratty, coat-tail hanger-on whiner, speak with CLARITY? His entire LIFE has no clarity, speaks with MUCH more than his MOUTH ever COULD!
Mrs.F posting: Glad Jeb get’s it. When will a lot of other people? Trump is not a repub, thank goodness. A lot of Trump’s backers are neither dems or repubs. Both parties stink to high heaven. Trump is the outsider and that is why I voted for him.
Hey, Jeb! S!T!F!U!
Why this Bush Family hates President Trump (our fellow Republican) is beyond Me.Old Man Bush said he voted for Hillary ! My Heavens, To lose your integrity like that is really low -politics.
Patricia Wenona
Everybody should Tweet Jeb and tell him to piss off.
I did. Actually, what I said was worse. I told him I’d vote for the traitor John ‘Songbird’ McCain before I ever voted for him again. (actually, I voted against Janet Reno for FL Gov in 2002)…
Son of a politician, just another freeloading POS that can’t make it away from the government tit.
Of course it was! I wish he’d go away, & take Romney & both Clintons with him. And, the Obamas, & all the other Deep State idiots, even his brother!
Go away Jeb. You’re as insignificant as The Clintons and the Obamas.
Sorry Jebby, YOU are NOT lovable, NOR trustworthy – -just like the rest of your politically incapacitated “sick” family.
This is the same guy who gave Hillary Clinton some Bush Foundation award for her “distinguished” public service. Give me a break!!
Bush and the Clinton’s along with Obama are all BUTT BUDDIES.
When you come from a family with CIA ties going back to Nazi Germany – a family who runs guns for drugs & profits from war, you start to talk the talk of a Criminal Cartel family member. ……
Trumps kids are adults with their own homes and own lives. What a stupid comment. Everyone thinks they need to take a shot at this President over something! All families are different. I think rump is very close with his children and trust them in a lot of his decisions. I think Bush is out of line because his life and his children live a different kind of life. I believe Trumps children are older, running his huge business as he runs the country. I think he is doing a good job as President and I will vote for him again. The dems are crooked and it is coming to life more everyday. Jeb, I loved your brother as President but you don’t hold a candle to him. I think for the most part your father was a good President. With all of this sexual issues, remember your father was said to have had an affair, he also groped a few women. i still would have voted for him and your brother. Your not Presidential material in my book! None! not one candidate is squeaky clean and you don’t have to look far to see it, (perhaps our (vice president! Mike Pence) his wife however accompanies him almost everywhere. Perhaps that is what it takes.Everyone wants to beat up on Trump, perfect he is not! but give us voters a break! We like him! I am sorry you don’t and yes a lot of others don’t! DEMOCRATS, so sorry but we don’t miss them. They need new blood, old people old idea’s. sexual pay off’s and lies. So sad! but Trump is still better than the most of them.
Texas anger at your service
This Bush, like the beans with the same name, are good for gas and indigestion … period !! Otherwise, they should continue to be pushed to the corner of the plate and sent to the trash where they belong !!
I don’t care who is right or wrong,but please stop you are grown man you are not 15 or 16 years old just accept that some one lost and some one win, that’s life win or loss we have to accept and just think and congratulate the winner that’s is the winner to accept your faith and clear your mind..
Yes. This country is done with the Bush family, the Clinton family, the Kennedy family and the Obama family. I don’t wish to see any of the again. Go away.
Yes. This country is done with the Bush family, the Clinton family, the Kennedy family and the Obama family. I don’t wish to see any of the again. Go away.
Jeb Bush is still in the Denial mode. He figured that he stood a better chance than the President, to be the Republican candidate. Like Hilary, he believed he was entitled. He should have listened to mama, when she told him not to run, before throwing his hat into the ring.
I guess he forgot “Mama knows best”. Sounds as bad as the whiny Democrat loser!
Maureen, If Jeb Bush had not previously made the comment about Trump being a “Republican in name only” (the pot calling the kettle black?), then I could perhaps agree with you. However since he has already laid the groundwork of snark, his intentions were quite clear to all with eyes to see. Jeb needs to learn to leave things unsaid-something that undoubtedly every human being could benefit from learning. (James 3:2-12)
Maureen, If Jeb Bush had not previously made the comment about Trump being a “Republican in name only” (the pot calling the kettle black?), then I could perhaps agree with you. However since he has already laid the groundwork of snark, his intentions were quite clear to all with eyes to see. Jeb needs to learn to leave things unsaid-something that undoubtedly every human being could benefit from learning. (James 3:2-12)
No, it was reckless and not well thought out. don’t believe any of the Bush family digs at others’ families. honest error without intent.
Jeb should have listened to his mother. She didn’t want him to run either.
Yes, I believe it was directed at Our Patriotic American President Donald Trump. The “bushes” are NWO and anything outside this scope is VERY BAD.
Alinsky calls it ”Projection”.
Wow! The biggest RINO in a family of consummate RINO’s calling President Trump a RINO; Now, that’s rich!!
One of a 1000 reasons why the USA is lucky this dork got nowhere in the 2016 elections.
Jeb! is still a dumb @$$. Look, the Bushes, despite all their long lineage back to Plymouth Rock. Prescott Bush, Wall Street investment banker and United States Senator. George HW, Letterman in Baseball at Yale, Skull & Bones, War Hero, oil country wildcatter, Congressman, failed US Senate candidate, Director of the RNC, Director of the CIA, US Ambassador to the People’s Republic, failed Presidential nominee, successful Vice Presidential candidate, successor President. George W, Yale, Skull & Bones, Harvard MBA, drunk, professional baseball impresario, Governor of Texas, failed President. Jeb!, Florida Governor, failed presidential candidate. For all that, Mayflower White Trash. The same is true of the Connecticut Walkers, especially that slob, Barbara Bush. This family is pit of vipers.
The dynasty is dead. Let it go. One last hurrah with George P? Not worth your dignity.
Jeb needs to give it up. Sorry but Trump is doing a great job a President, He is draining the swamp, it is just taking some time. We are tired of being sold down the river, we needed someone that would stand up for us the US citizens and quit trying to turn us into a Communist country. Don’t waste anyones money running again because you won’t win.
This spoiled, bratty, coat-tail hanger-on whiner, speak with CLARITY? His entire LIFE has no clarity, speaks with MUCH more than his MOUTH ever COULD!
Mrs.F posting: Glad Jeb get’s it. When will a lot of other people? Trump is not a repub, thank goodness. A lot of Trump’s backers are neither dems or repubs. Both parties stink to high heaven. Trump is the outsider and that is why I voted for him.
Hey, Jeb! S!T!F!U!
Why this Bush Family hates President Trump (our fellow Republican) is beyond Me.Old Man Bush said he voted for Hillary ! My Heavens, To lose your integrity like that is really low -politics.
Patricia Wenona
Everybody should Tweet Jeb and tell him to piss off.
I did. Actually, what I said was worse. I told him I’d vote for the traitor John ‘Songbird’ McCain before I ever voted for him again. (actually, I voted against Janet Reno for FL Gov in 2002)…
Son of a politician, just another freeloading POS that can’t make it away from the government tit.
Of course it was! I wish he’d go away, & take Romney & both Clintons with him. And, the Obamas, & all the other Deep State idiots, even his brother!
Go away Jeb. You’re as insignificant as The Clintons and the Obamas.
Sorry Jebby, YOU are NOT lovable, NOR trustworthy – -just like the rest of your politically incapacitated “sick” family.
This is the same guy who gave Hillary Clinton some Bush Foundation award for her “distinguished” public service. Give me a break!!
Bush and the Clinton’s along with Obama are all BUTT BUDDIES.
When you come from a family with CIA ties going back to Nazi Germany – a family who runs guns for drugs & profits from war, you start to talk the talk of a Criminal Cartel family member. ……
Trumps kids are adults with their own homes and own lives. What a stupid comment. Everyone thinks they need to take a shot at this President over something! All families are different. I think rump is very close with his children and trust them in a lot of his decisions. I think Bush is out of line because his life and his children live a different kind of life. I believe Trumps children are older, running his huge business as he runs the country. I think he is doing a good job as President and I will vote for him again. The dems are crooked and it is coming to life more everyday. Jeb, I loved your brother as President but you don’t hold a candle to him. I think for the most part your father was a good President. With all of this sexual issues, remember your father was said to have had an affair, he also groped a few women. i still would have voted for him and your brother. Your not Presidential material in my book! None! not one candidate is squeaky clean and you don’t have to look far to see it, (perhaps our (vice president! Mike Pence) his wife however accompanies him almost everywhere. Perhaps that is what it takes.Everyone wants to beat up on Trump, perfect he is not! but give us voters a break! We like him! I am sorry you don’t and yes a lot of others don’t! DEMOCRATS, so sorry but we don’t miss them. They need new blood, old people old idea’s. sexual pay off’s and lies. So sad! but Trump is still better than the most of them.
Texas anger at your service
This Bush, like the beans with the same name, are good for gas and indigestion … period !! Otherwise, they should continue to be pushed to the corner of the plate and sent to the trash where they belong !!
I don’t care who is right or wrong,but please stop you are grown man you are not 15 or 16 years old just accept that some one lost and some one win, that’s life win or loss we have to accept and just think and congratulate the winner that’s is the winner to accept your faith and clear your mind..
I don’t care who is right or wrong,but please stop you are grown man you are not 15 or 16 years old just accept that some one lost and some one win, that’s life win or loss we have to accept and just think and congratulate the winner that’s is the winner to accept your faith and clear your mind..
Jeb Bush is still in the Denial mode. He figured that he stood a better chance than the President, to be the Republican candidate. Like Hilary, he believed he was entitled. He should have listened to mama, when she told him not to run, before throwing his hat into the ring.
I guess he forgot “Mama knows best”. Sounds as bad as the whiny Democrat loser!
Yes. This country is done with the Bush family, the Clinton family, the Kennedy family and the Obama family. I don’t wish to see any of the again. Go away.
No, it was reckless and not well thought out. don’t believe any of the Bush family digs at others’ families. honest error without intent.
Maureen, If Jeb Bush had not previously made the comment about Trump being a “Republican in name only” (the pot calling the kettle black?), then I could perhaps agree with you. However since he has already laid the groundwork of snark, his intentions were quite clear to all with eyes to see. Jeb needs to learn to leave things unsaid-something that undoubtedly every human being could benefit from learning. (James 3:2-12)
Jeb should have listened to his mother. She didn’t want him to run either.
Yes, I believe it was directed at Our Patriotic American President Donald Trump. The “bushes” are NWO and anything outside this scope is VERY BAD.
Wow! The biggest RINO in a family of consummate RINO’s calling President Trump a RINO; Now, that’s rich!!
Alinsky calls it ”Projection”.