Bush made the remark in April when the contest for the Republican nominee had narrowed between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, according to the report.
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In a Monday morning interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” at the RNC site in Cleveland, the former GOP House speaker said “the Republican party has been awfully good to the Bushes and they’re showing remarkably little gratitude”.
In May, once Trump had secured enough delegates for the nomination, a spokesman said that neither he nor the elder Bush planned to endorse Trump for the presidency.
Bush fears that the end of the Republican party as he knows it is near. So are the party’s last two presidential nominees, 2012’s Mitt Romney and 2008’s Arizona Sen.
While he has no doubt tapped into the anxiety so prevalent in the United States today, I do not believe Donald Trump reflects the principles or inclusive legacy of the Republican Party.
“I’m anxious that I will be the last Republican president”, Bush reportedly said.
Bush has declined to comment on Trump’s candidacy directly, but Politico’s report comes at the start of the first Republican National Convention in 40 years with no members of the Bush family in attendance.
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All of the Bushes – a Republican dynasty – are notably skipping the convention, including Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush.
