"Look what I did to his sons": Trump reacts to Barbara Bush's disdain for him, revealed in a new biography

President Donald Trump reacted to the negative opinion of his former first lady, Barbara Bush, detailed in a recently published book on the late matriarch of the Bush family, claiming that his critics were based on what he had done to his sons.

"I've heard that she was mean to me, but she should be." Look at what I did to his sons, "Trump told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview published Thursday.

Bush, wife of a president and mother of another president, died in late April at the age of 92 and her husband, former president George HW Bush passed away a few months later, in November . Trump was not invited to attend these funerals.

In 2016, his second son, former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, ran in the Republican nomination race and nicknamed him "Jeb Low Energy" by Trump. Trump also frequently criticized his eldest son in the election campaign, former President George W. Bush.

Bush's feelings for Trump, revealed in "The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Dynasty Factory" by Susan Page, showed that Bush hated Trump well before the 2016 elections, although they be deepened during the race.

"Trump now means greed, egoism and ugly. It's so sad, "said Bush about Trump in 1990, according to the book, which had been written on the basis of the diaries of the former First Lady.

Bush also said that Trump's policy had caused her heart problems, according to the book, and had her removed from the Republican party, that she had not engaged in her last months of life . She would have kept on her bedside table a red, white and blue clock that counted the days remaining to Trump's presidency.

A few weeks ago, Trump also criticized another late and dead political opponent – the late Sen. John McCain, who died of brain cancer last year – because of his vote against Trump's efforts to repeal the law. on affordable care.