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Home Front: Politix
Obama and Bush Unite in Rare Move Against Trump
2025-07-02
How unstatesmanlike. President Bush, at least, was trained in good manners, and knows better. Poor President Obama was brought up by Communist spies, and so all he understands is power plays. Not that anyone cares what either of them think on the subject, as President Bush never mastered the Deep State and President Obama co-opted it, inasmuch as they were not his enthusiastic fellow travellers.
[Daily Beast] Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have joined forces to shoot down President Trump’s "colossal mistake" to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The Trump administration cut around 90 percent of USAID’s foreign aid contracts during Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rampage back in February. Musk oversaw the depletion of the workforce from 10,000 to less than 300.

The agency will be absorbed by the state department, where it will be replaced by a new organization called America First.

In a farewell video message to staffers on Monday, USAID’s last day before it is folded into the state department, the two former presidents decried its treatment by Trump.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  Oh no. Hey everyone, Bono is crying. Remember Bono? Yeah, he's crying. We should probably put stuff on hold until we can get him a nappy or something.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-07-02 18:21  

#11  Because they are the last two where the money trail can get to them. Biden will be dead in a couple years, or at least so bad he cant get prosecuted and we will never go after Jill, the next to are these idiots. They know they will be in the DOJ sights soon...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2025-07-02 16:55  

#10  Donald Trump's 'colossal mistake' BLASTED by Obama and Bush during surprise reunion that left Bono in tears
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-07-02 12:11  

#9  Bush II turned Iran's only natural enemy, Iraq, into Iranian province. Obama gave them billions to build the bomb.
Posted by: Grom the Affective   2025-07-02 11:49  

#8  Rare Move

But is it?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-07-02 10:17  

#7  TW nails it. JEB's defeat was a gift. I suspect the family secretly realized as much. Mexican lawn services hire only Mexicans. Same is true of the Yale, Ivy League crowd.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-07-02 09:31  

#6  JEB! was just frosting on the loathing cake. The Bushes have been patrician class Republicans for generations in Connecticut and environs — and that side trip to Texas his father started. They’ve served in both houses of Congress, as governors and vice presidents, on political commissions and charitable boards and as ambassadors, and married into families just like them for even longer. George HW Bush was their first president, and George W their second…. and someone discovered that Barack Obama is something like a tenth cousin, so while they move in different circles, at official president functions they stand together.

The Donald is a nouveau riche, second generation landlord from Queens who, as they no doubt see it, bought his way into the White House instead of knowing his place.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-07-02 09:29  

#5  ^ Still sore about JEB!
Posted by: Frank G   2025-07-02 08:38  

#4  The Bush people have been against Trump from day one. Let's not pretend anything has changed.
Posted by: ed in texas   2025-07-02 08:13  

#3  /\ USAID was possibly a money laundering outfit that was not only important but essential for the deep state.

I don't think there is any question. Appears to be something of a pattern.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-07-02 08:01  

#2  Interesting that it is specifically the USAID shutdown that triggered this bipartisan condemnation.

USAID was possibly a money laundering outfit that was not only important but essential for the deep state.

Rerouting money streams will be difficult because the public is now aware of the general scheme. This is true even if an establishment figure should succeed Trump.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2025-07-02 07:10  

#1  They are both the Uni-party, just different factions of the same party. They both loved to spread the money around via that agency.
Posted by: DarthVader   2025-07-02 00:43  

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