Here’s hoping Melania Trump is a professional at disassociating by now — as a result of she’s going to wish it.
The first woman will host the disclosing of a U.S. Postal Service stamp devoted to her late predecessor Barbara Bush, spouse of the late President George H.W. Bush, this Thursday within the White House’s East Room.
But the occasion’s most important invitee — former President George W. Bush — is probably going going to skip the occasion honoring his mom, two unnamed officers instructed The Washington Post.
Representatives for the previous president didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.

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There shall be a Bush available on the unveiling, the Post studies. Dorothy Bush Koch, George W. Bush’s youthful sister, is listed as a featured speaker on the occasion. Alice Yates, chief govt of the George and Barbara Bush Foundation, will even be in attendance.
No phrase but on whether or not former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager will blab about all of this on “Today,” however, hey, maintain your fingers crossed!

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Although he attended each of President Donald Trump’s inaugurations, George W. Bush has by no means endorsed Trump himself, declining to again his fellow Republican in each 2016 and 2024.
He additionally appears much less eager to pal round with Trump than he does with the Obamas — who, in contrast to Trump and the Bush household, are Democrats.
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At a 2021 occasion marking twenty years because the 9/11 assaults, Bush bemoaned that “so much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear, and resentment.”
Trump appeared to assume the Texas Republican’s remarks had been immediately aimed toward him and snapped again in a press release saying that the youthful Bush had “led a failed and uninspiring presidency” and “shouldn’t be lecturing anybody!”
It also needs to be famous that neither of Bush’s dad and mom was a fan of Trump. George H.W. Bush declined to endorse him in 2016, opting to again Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In the 2019 e-book “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of a Dynasty,” Barbara Bush reportedly thought-about Trump “a symbol of greed.” The e-book additionally revealed that she admitted earlier than her loss of life in 2018 that she didn’t contemplate herself a Republican anymore.
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