Mika: Trump Fakes More Respect for the Bush Family and Then He Goes Back To Making a Mockery of the Office

‘The presidency does not shape the character, it reveals it’

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Bush served in the military, treated people with respect and dignity, and put country ahead of party and self time and time again over his half century in public service. Half century. Over the last two years, deviancy has continued being defined down by this current president, his cronies, his supporters, who love telling reporters that they don't care how deviant his behavior becomes. Let's see what happens at Wednesday's memorial service. My prediction is that Trump fakes more respect for a family whose unprecedented history of public service he has repeatedly belittled. Then he goes back to making a mockery of the very office George Bush and this nation long revered. Just as President Bush's character was set even during his earliest days at Andover with the stories that you all have told, Donald Trump remains the man — think about this — the man he was while avoiding the draft and then telling Howard Stern on the radio that sleeping around with women in New York City while avoiding sexual diseases was his own personal Vietnam. He said that. As is always the case, the presidency does not shape character, it reveals it in a raw fashion. And that is why we celebrate George H.W. Bush's legacy and fear the next two years of Mr. Trump's wild White House ride.”

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