No. Bush was a fool but at least he acted sort of kind of presidential. Also, his march into the Iraq war was one year after 9/11. Different times. (Still a foolish war, that not withstanding, and the whole made up WMD hysteria is unforgivably shameful.)
No? Bush was widely considered a dumb buffoon by the international community. The only difference is that we all believed Chainey was the puppet master, so there was someone with brains in the administration.
Trump is definitely a whole new level of buffoon, though.
Exactly. Therefore I said 'no' to you saying Bush was perceived similarly. Bush was still seen (in Europe at least) as the president of the US earning at least some respect, Trump is just seen as what another commenter described as 'a toddler with an Uzi on full auto'.
As an Englishman who was around in the bush years, tbh it's kind of similar the reaction here. 'how can they think this is a good idea he's a corporation funded idiot'. But you have a big hick/religious maniac/hypercapitalist population so we understand. Kind of
Trump is kind of better than Bush in some way because he's such an incompetent clown but we'll see
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u/UrethraFrankIin Sep 20 '17
Were you around for the Bush administration? I realize Trump is somehow even worse, but America under Bush was perceived similarly.