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October 16: San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called the sitting president a "soulless coward" Monday. 

Dave Zirin of The Nation reported the news, noting Popovich's comments were in regard to Donald Trump claiming former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush failed to call the families of soldiers who had died.

... Popovich notably compared the president's actions to those of a sixth grader and called his behavior "disgusting" and "comical."
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2739038?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

October 19: George W. Bush doesn't talk much about politics in public. Which makes the speech he gave Thursday in New York City -- a point-by-point rejection of Trumpism -- all the more important and noteworthy.

The 43rd president of the United States -- and the last Republican to hold the office before Donald Trump -- didn't mention the 45th president by name in his speech at the George W. Bush Institute. But Trump -- and his views -- were ever-present in the former President's address.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/bush-speech-trump-bigotry/index.html

October 19: Former President George W. Bush condemns Trump-era America: 'Bigotry seems emboldened' ... "We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism, forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America," Bush said. "We see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade, forgetting that conflict, instability and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism. We've seen the return of isolation sentiments, forgetting that American security is directly threatened by the chaos and despair of distant places."

"We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty," he continued. "Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-george-bush-speech-20171019-story.html

October 20: Obama and Bush deliver calls to action against Trumpism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/10/20/daily-202-obama-and-bush-deliver-calls-to-action-against-trumpism/59e913ec30fb041a74e75e39/

October 19: "We become the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. by recognizing one another not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," Bush said toward the end of his speech. "This means people of every race, ethnicity and religion can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed. It means the very identity of our nation depends on the passing of civic ideals to the next generation."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/bush-speech-trump-bigotry/index.html

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October 20: Nowhere in George W Bush's 2,000-word speech does he mention the name Donald Trump. It was crystal clear, however, that the 43rd US president took dead aim on the 45th president from a podium at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday.

Ex-presidents traditionally shy away from the political stage. It was long considered in poor taste for a former occupant of the Oval Office to criticise one of his successors.

Then again, these are days when seemingly set-in-stone norms and standards of behaviour have fallen by the wayside.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41689272

November 4: Former President George H.W. Bush has a blunt assessment of Donald Trump: "He's a blowhard." And his son, former President George W. Bush, has harsh words for his Republican successor as well: "This guy doesn't know what it means to be president."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/11/04/george_w_bush_donald_trump_doesnt_know_what_it_means_to_be_president.html

November 4: Neither George Bush voted for Trump, book author tells ...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-bush-book/neither-george-bush-voted-for-trump-book-author-tells-new-york-times-idUSKBN1D40TP

-- 2018 --

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February 8: Former president George W. Bush said he believes Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, departing from President Trump, who has been skeptical of intelligence agencies' findings that the Kremlin had interfered to help him win. “There's pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/08/george-w-bush-says-theres-pretty-clear-evidence-that-russia-meddled-in-u-s-election/?utm_term=.adf1b58aa2c8

February 8: Trump Should Wear Criticism From George W. Bush as 'Badge of Honor'
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/08/ingraham-trump-should-wear-criticism-george-w-bush-badge-honor

March 4: Trump Mocks George W. Bush, Calls Iraq Invasion ‘Single Worst Decision Ever Made’

The president, whose flip-flopping position on the Iraq War is well-documented, sarcastically referred to Bush as a “real genius.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-george-w-bush-iraq_us_5a9baa3be4b0479c0253414a

March 8: Bush says Trump ‘makes me look pretty good’ by comparison
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376909-bush-says-trump-makes-me-look-pretty-good-by-comparison-report

June 20: In 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act into law, which required unaccompanied minors from non-neighboring countries (all countries except Mexico and Canada) to be turned over the Department of Health and Human Services for resettlement within three days.

Former first lady Laura Bush wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post which compared the family separations to World War II Japanese-American internment camps. She wrote, "I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart."
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/immigrant-family-separation-everything-you-need-to-know/3616676/

July 12: Trump called George W. Bush to discuss Brett Kavanaugh
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/politics/trump-bush-kavanaugh-supreme-court/index.html

September 16: George Bush stumping for GOP candidates, but not Ted Cruz
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/09/16/george-bush-stumping-for-gop-candidates-but-not-ted-cruz/23528697/

September 20: President Trump said Wednesday former President George W. Bush is responsible for the biggest mistake in American history.

“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush,” Trump said during an interview with the Hill. “Obama may have gotten [U.S. military personnel] out wrong, but going in is, to me, the biggest single mistake made in the history of our country.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-george-w-bush-behind-worst-single-mistake-in-us-history

-- 2019 --

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January 3: In Trump era, Nancy Pelosi admits to nostalgia about George W. Bush. Here's why

When Nancy Pelosi was House speaker in 2008, she called then-President George W. Bush “a total failure.” But these days, the woman who was re-elected Thursday as speaker, acknowledges some nostalgia about dealing with the former GOP president.

Pelosi said she and Bush “had our differences of opinion, especially on the war in Iraq, but we had many areas of agreement and we were able to work together in respectful ways. (I had) respect for him and the job he held and he of Congress and our responsibilities," she told USA TODAY in an interview last month.

Pelosi is already battling a new Republican president, Donald Trump, over the budget and spending for his proposed border wall. She said there is "no question" that as speaker, her dealings with Trump will be different from her clashes with Bush.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/03/nancy-pelosi-admits-nostalgia-george-w-bush-trump-era/2430471002/

-- 2020 --

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