Twitter reacts to Barack Obama and George Bush’s rebukes of Donald Trump

At separate events in the US, both former presidents made ‘thinly veiled’ comments aimed at Trump

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Former US presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have used speeches at separate events to voice their concerns about the current state of politics in the US.

Obama, who was on the campaign trail for a fellow Democrat for the first time since leaving office, urged Americans to “reject the politics of division and fear”, while Bush took aim at “bullying and prejudice” in public life, claiming that politics had fallen prey to “conspiracy theories” and “outright fabrication”, reports CNN.

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