George H W Bush voted for Hillary Clinton and called Donald Trump a 'blowhard'

according to Former US president George H W Bush voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and called Donald Trump a "blowhard" who was driven by "a certain ego." His son George W. Bush left his ballot blank and said about Trump: "This guy doesn't know what it means to be president." "I don't like him," the elder Bush told Updegrove in May 2016 before the elections in November of that year, according to excerpts of the book obtained by AFP. "I don't know much about him, but I know he's a blowhard. And I'm not too excited about him being (our) leader."

A limp SNL cold open gets in one good dig at Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump

Alec Baldwin returned once again to play President Donald Trump in the now-familiar "what happened this week in Washington" cold open format. He praised Manafort's oriental rugs and said that his proposed tax plan title, the "Cut Cut Cut Act," came about because he was "having a stroke" when they named it. #SNL pic.twitter.com/I5wtLoDjZy — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 5, 2017As with many of the show's recent Trump-themed cold opens, the sketch felt limp, devoid of anything approaching satire. But there was one barbed joke, delivered as almost a throwaway line: "What an idiot that Harvey Weinstein is," Trump remarked to Manafort. Since the Weinstein story broke on October 5, a month ago, a cascading set of similar allegations have surfaced against powerful men.

Donald Trump offers to meet Kim Jong-un as Pentagon warns only invasion can disarm North Korea

referring to Donald Trump last night offered an unexpected diplomatic olive branch to North Korea, indicating he would "certainly be open" to sitting down for personal talks with Kim Jong-un. In an interview broadcast in the US shortly after he arrived in Tokyo at the start of a marathon 12-day Asia tour, Mr Trump said it would be "not a bad thing" to meet the dictator. He said: "I would sit down with anybody. I don't think it's strength or weakness, I think sitting down with people is not a bad thing.

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