Trump to Bush: You’re Fired

Trump to Bush: You’re Fired

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I’ve always thought of Donald Trump as a mega-developer with an oversized ego and a really bad dye job.

So, I haven’t paid much attention to his grotesquely successful “reality” show The Apprentice, in which the billionaire vamps shamelessly as a hardworking CEO, or to his latest best-selling how-to-manual, Trump: How to Get Rich.

But “The Donald” did get my attention with his interview in the August issue of Esquire, where he makes it clear that he’d treat Bush like the incompetent guy he is and fire him for his mishandling of Iraq.

“Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in.” Trump tells Esquire. “What was the purpose of the whole thing? Hundreds and hundreds of young people killed. And what about the people coming back with no arms and no legs? Not to mention the other side. All those Iraqi kids who’ve been blown to pieces. And it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. All this for nothing!,” Trump said.

Trump to Bush: “You’re Fired!” Not a bad bumper sticker. And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.

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