Haberman's reporting has long flustered the former president, leading him to call her 'Maggot' Haberman, yet he agreed to sit down with her three times over the course of her reporting for the book.

'Here we go again! Another Fake book is out, this one, supposedly very boring and stale, by self appointed head case, Failing (unfunded liability!) New York Times writer, Maggie Hagerman,' Trump wrote on Truth Social last month The late Barbara Bush, wife of Bush Sr., called Trump a 'showman' and said she didn’t understand why people liked him. Jeb fired back, remarking that he goes home to children 'who actually love me.' Trump appears to be widely disliked within the Bush family, having belittled 'low energy' Jeb Bush, as he defeated him during the 2016 Republican primary. And I’m not too excited about him being a leader.'īush Sr., who did not endorse a candidate in the 2016 election, ending up voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton. I don’t know much about him, but I know he’s a blowhard. was once quoted as saying, 'I don’t like him. The 41st President had little respect in return for Trump and was often candid about his disdain for Trump and Trumpism. The details are similar, although the encounter occurs at Boston Logan Airport. The anecdote had been told previously by author Mark Updegrove's 2017 book called The Last Republicans. It is well documented how Trump has made a number disparaging remarks about the Bush family over the years and even mocked H.W.’s campaign rhetoric in the past. The details are similar, although the encounter occurs at Boston's Logan Airport but I heard two stories after I had finished the book that I would have included if if I could have,' Haberman teased.

'It was stuff that I couldn’t either confirm enough that I felt comfortable. bookstore, Haberman explained how she actually left out the anecdote which goes some way to explaining Trump's long-strained relationship with the Bushes. Haberman, who also serves as a CNN analyst, is currently on tour promoting her tell-all book which was released last Tuesday, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.ĭuring a one-to-one with CNN's Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins at a Washington D.C. Bush's dismissal of Donald Trump during the chance airport encounter led to decades of Trump shunning the Bushes in return. The story was recalled by New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman who revealed how former H.W. Bush was never a fan of Donald Trump, so much so that during the early 1990s he hid behind a newspaper in order to avoid speaking to him.

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