Trump Unsurprised By Barbara Bush’s ‘Nasty’ Jabs: ‘Look What I Did To Her Sons’

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 2019 White House Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration. Hosted in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., On Monday, April 1, 2019. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto)
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 2019 White House Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration. Hosted in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., On Monday, April 1, 2019. (Pho... U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 2019 White House Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration. Hosted in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., On Monday, April 1, 2019. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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An introspective President Trump told the Washington Times on Thursday that he wasn’t surprised by some of former first lady Barbara Bush’s posthumous comments about him in the new book “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of a Dynasty.”

“I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be. Look what I did to her sons,” he told the Washington Times.

In the book, by USA Today reporter Susan Page, Bush calls Trump the “symbol of greed” and blamed him for a heart attack she suffered in 2016. She also told Page after Trump was elected that she no longer considered herself a Republican.

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