George W. Bush knows he looked a bit ridiculous battling a rain poncho in bad weather on Donald Trump’s inauguration day.
“I wish I got the rain poncho on a little more cleanly,” Bush said, referring to his epic struggle with the see-through rain gear. “My daughters were aghast: ‘Dad, you’re a national tweet sensation. You’re trending,’ or whatever the words are. I said, ‘I don’t know what the heck that means.’ But then I saw the pictures and I can see why I was trending.”
Bush came clean about the poncho in an interview Thursday with NPR’s “Morning Edition” Thursday. But one thing he was foggy about was his reported comment that Trump’s inauguration was “some weird shit.”
“If I said it, I don’t remember it,” Bush said diplomatically.
He said was glad he attended the inauguration, despite fissures in the Republican Party over Trump (neither Bush nor wife Laura, nor his father voted for Trump). “You know, it’s a really beautiful experience to watch a peaceful transfer of power,” he said.
But he was critical of the current plan to deport undocumented immigrants.
“Let’s discuss the issue of people here illegally. What are the options? Do nothing?” he said. “My judgment is that there needs to be a way for somebody to be able to get in line to become a citizen so long as they meet certain criteria.”
As for Mexico, he said: “I think it’s very important for us to recognize the importance of Mexico and the relationship we have with Mexico. We want Mexico to succeed. It’s in our national interest they succeed.”
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