Finally, he ended his word war with a statement that Democrats and the entire world will definitely remember: “If I don’t win, I will consider this – and I mean this – a total and complete waste of time”.
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The comments come as Bush continues his full assault on Trump over the past several weeks questioning everything from his rival’s seriousness to intellectual prowess.
“But for Barack Obama, Donald Trump’s effect would not be almost as strong as it is”, Bush said in an interview on NPR.
“And we’re going to do something very special, we’re to make amends for a lot mistakes that have been made over the years”. However, Bush expressed optimism to NPR that “the emotion of the here and now” with Trump “will subside”.
“The point is that we’re living in this reality-TV kind of political environment, where [Trump] fills the space by saying outrageous things”.
With the American population grappling with big issues such as immigration and national security, Mr. Trump is using fear as a method of scaring people into voting for him, Mr. Bush said. “And he’ll move on to the next thing, and he fills the space”. He then went into his often repeated attack on Bush as having “low energy”. Mr. Bush said. “Yes, they’re scared, and the job of a president – or a candidate, for that matter – isn’t to scare them more”.
Bush’s condemnation of Trump’s insults, however, has not really given him much of a bump in the polls.
Iowa votes first in the nation in the nomination race, with its caucuses on February 1.
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Asked where he’ll be ringing in 2017 – and whether he’ll take their call – the real estate mogul predicted he’d be happy at the end of election season. Trump, however, told reporters this week that he plans to spend at least $2 million a week on campaign ads in Iowa, New Hampshire and SC. And it’s stuck in your hair, and you say, ‘Oh my God, I got to take a shower again, my hair’s all screwed up, ‘ right?
