Trump squeezes in 33 insults about the Bush family in a 35-minute interview
Donald Trump might have just set a record for the most insults packed into a half-hour interview. Unsurprisingly, The Donald didn't hold back when telling The Washington Post his thoughts on the Bushes — all three generations of them — in a recent 35-minute interview in which he "found 33 ways to skewer the family — about one put-down per minute," The Post tallied.
Trump's beef with the Bushes reportedly dates back to the late 1980s when George H.W. Bush was president and Trump was turning his father's "outer borough real-estate portfolio into a gold-plated empire" — but, The Post notes, "Trump reserves particular, personal ire for Jeb Bush." As 2016 heats up, The Post predicts that the decades in the making face-off between Trump and the Bushes will too, saying the race will be "merely a manifestation of decades of discord."
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