Trump blames wrong Bush brother for Iraq War

At a rally in South Carolina on Monday, Donald Trump continued his most recent trend of gaffes, malaprops, and moments of questionable cognition.

Just don’t expect the mainstream media to discuss it—they’re far too busy signal-boosting the right wing talking point that President Biden is dementia-riddled to contemplate the mental fitness of his most important political rival.

At the rally, Trump was doing what he does best: bragging about political victories 7 years old—presumably to compensate for more recent defeats in 2018, 2022, and, most importantly for him, 2020—when overwhelming narcissism and underwhelming memory got the better of him.

As he meandered through one particularly painful sentence, he seized the opportunity to mock an old (and politically inactive rival), Jeb “Low Energy” Bush and disdain Bush’s military service (anyone remember when the GOP was the pro-military party?).

Then Trump overreached, blaming Jeb Bush for “getting us into the Middle East. How did that work out?”

This obvious reference to America’s disastrous and costly early-aughts wars in Iraq and Afghanistan under the poor judgment and poorer leadership of President Bush was undermined by the fact that Trump was mocking the wrong Bush.

It was in fact Jeb’s older brother, George W. Bush, who led America into the Middle East as President of the United States. Jeb, famously an entirely different person than his older brother, was at the time merely commander-in-chief of… the Florida National Guard… as that state’s governor.

Now imagine the publicity this moment would get if it had been President Biden who’d made such a mistake while speaking so crudely of a veteran’s military service. He’d be lambasted not merely on Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, and by right wing alternate media pundits such as Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, and others… but also by CNN, the New York Times, and other mainstream outlets.

Poll after poll show that more Americans are concerned with President Biden’s mental and physical capabilities than Donald Trump’s, despite Trump’s many gaffes, his observable lack of physical fitness, and the fact that he’s regarded as dangerously stupid by many former employees.

If we’re going to seriously question the relative fitness for high office office between Joe Biden—80-year-old, policy-wonky incumbent President— and Donald Trump—the 77-year-old, four-times-federally indicted ex-reality TV star who could only vaguely grasp policy when experts explained whom it would make a “loser”—then perhaps everyone, especially the media, could start by holding both to the same standard.

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