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

After the death of former President George H.W

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W. Bush’s father, in late 2018, the former first lady canceled two scheduled appearances on her “Becoming” book tour to attend the funeral in Washington. It was at this event that Bush established a tradition of handing her another piece of candy.

Speaking to Today earlier that same year, Obama had said of Bush 43, “He is my partner in crime at every major thing where all the formers gather. So we’re together all the time, and I love him to death. ”

Although Bush referred to the object he gave Obama at McCain’s funeral as an Altoid in his latest interview, Obama previously described it as an “old cough drop.”

“That’s the funny thing, because they were in the little White House box, and I was like, ‘How long have you had these? ’ And he said, ‘A long time, we got a lot of these! ’” the former first lady told then-hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie.

Moments like those are “what people are hungry for,” she added.

“Party doesn’t separate us,” she said. “Color, gender — those kinds of things don’t separate us. It’s the message that we send.