WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Bush didn't bite her tongue in recent years when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn't like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the Republican president, who transformed the party her own family had embodied for generations
She referred to Trump in the entry as"the real symbol of greed in the 80s."
"The Trumps are a new word, both of them," Mrs. Bush wrote."Trump now means Greed, selfishness and ugly. So sad." The book, based also on five interviews Page conducted with Mrs. Bush, is due in bookstores Tuesday. It comes nearly a year after the passing of the second woman in U.S. history to be the wife of one president and the mother of another.
Weeks later, however, she wrote to Melania Trump. At the time, Mrs. Trump was the subject of intense speculation over whether she would relocate to the White House from her family's penthouse at New York's Trump Tower. Mrs. Bush encouraged the incoming first lady to do what was best for her and for the couple's young son, Barron. Mrs. Trump attended her predecessor's funeral.
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