Bush, Obama Push ‘Friendship’ With Hidden Digs at Trump

presidents in Philadelphia. The discussion revolved around their experiences in the White House and their messages for the country as it approaches its semiquincentennial, People magazine reported.

During her conversation with her father, which aired on Tuesday, April 21, on “Today,” the 43rd president reflected on his unexpected friendship with Obama. He shared a memorable moment from the late Senator John McCain’s funeral in 2018, when a camera captured him passing what appeared to be a piece of candy to her.

That’s who I sit next to at funerals,” Bush said

That’s who I sit next to at funerals,” Bush said. “And I was kind of teasing her and stuff, and I slipped her an Altoid. Not as a joke, but I thought she might want one.

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“And I got in the car afterwards, and you said, ‘You’re trending,’” he added to his daughter. “I didn’t know what trending meant. ”

“It turns out, the country is starved to see a white, center-right Republican and an African American center-left Democrat having fun and being able to converse, not as political figures but as citizens,” Bush added, per People magazine. “And I intend to continue to try to do that.

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