George W Bush to Trump: Stop the racism and name-calling
'I don't like the racism and I don't like the name-calling and I don't like the people feeling alienated'
Former U.S. president George W. Bush has described the political climate in Washington as "pretty ugly" under Donald Trump's presidency but expressed optimism the United States would pull through despite the divisive political discourse. "I don't like the racism and I don't like the name-calling and I don't like the people feeling alienated," Bush, 70, said in an interview with People magazine that will hit newsstands on Friday. "Nobody likes that." Promoting his first art book "Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors", Bush said, however, that he felt no anxiety about the direction the country was headed in. "I'm optimistic about where we'll end up," Bush said. "We've been through these periods before and we’ve always had a way to come out of it. I'm more optimistic than some." Trump, the first Republican president since Bush left office, won the November presidential election after beating 16 other candidates to the party's nomination, including ...
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