Trump: Bush the 'worst president'
Posted by William Neikirk at 4:05 p.m. CDT
The Donald has never been known to mince words. And he certainly didn't in
an interview with CNN today. The star of "The Apprentice" (Mr. Donald
Trump,
if you didn't know it) said that President Bush is "probably the worst
president in the history of the United States."
And that's not all. He said Sen. Hillary Clinton will probably be the
Democratic nominee for president and that she is "ready" to be president.
He
called her a friend and "very talented, very smart." Sen. Barack Obama of
Illinois, he said, is too young to be president. "I think his time might
come, but I think it's too soon."
Speaking of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peace-seeking foreign
trips, he said she's "a lovely woman but she never makes a deal--she
doesn't
make deals, she waves. She gets off the plane, she sits down with some
dictator--45-degree angle, they do the camera shot. She waves again, she
gets back on the plane, she waves--no deal ever happens."
He blamed Bush for the mess in Iraq but said that former Defense Secretary
Donald Rumseld "was a disaster, and the other people that are giving him
advice have been a disaster."
Asked if the president would pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former aide to
Vice President Cheney who was convicted in for lying in the investigation
of
a leak of a CIA official's name, Trump said, "I think he probably will,
because otherwise he's going to see some horrible books written by Scooter
Libby."
Turning to GOP politics, he said he was surprised that Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) has not fared as well in the campaign as he thought, and added
that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani "is doing so well in the polls
it's
really amazing."
When the Donald said that anybody who sup****ted the Iraqi war couldn't win
the election, host Wolf Blitzer said that Giuliani sup****ted it. To which
Trump said, "Well, he's sup****ting it, but he's sup****ting it in a much
weaker way. I mean, if you listen to both of them, Rudy is not sup****ting
it
with the same vigor that John is."
He had a solution for the war: "Declare victory and leave." The U.S. is
getting bogged down in a civil war, he said. Trump didn't cricitize Vice
President Cheney as harshly as he did Bush, but added that Cheney was
"very
hawkish on the war."
In calling Bush the "worst president," he said he did not understand how
Democrats lost the last presidential election. He gave Democrat John
Edwards
high marks, and also Mayor Bloomberg of New York.
If the race came down to Clinton vs. Giuliani, Trump said he would be
torn,
but "I'd make a decision, because I believe in that. I don't believe in
sup****ting two people."
In other words, one of them would be fired.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/trump_bush_the_.html
Bush is certainly the worst in our lifetime.
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