‘She’s dead and he’s president’: Roger Stone berates Barbara Bush over criticism of Donald Trump
- The Trump ally’s remarks came in an Instagram post in which he called Bush ‘nasty, rude, vindictive, entitled, self-important’
- They apparently followed details Stone had read in a newly published biography of Bush, ‘The Matriarch’
Roger Stone, a former political adviser and long-time friend of US President Donald Trump, mocked the death of former first lady Barbara Bush on Instagram after a new book chronicled her criticism of the current president.
“She had a ‘countdown clock’ for @realdonaldtrump presidency?” Stone wrote Friday on Instagram. “Well she’s dead and he’s president- who won that one? Nasty, rude, vindictive, entitled, self-important – that’s the woman I had several unpleasant encounters with.”
Stone appeared to be responding to Bush’s criticism of Trump that was included in a biography published this month, The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, by USA TODAY Washington Bureau chief Susan Page. Excerpts of the book were first published in USA TODAY last month.
Bush blamed Trump for aggravating her long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease in the book. Bush also told Page that she’d “probably say no” when asked if she still considered herself a Republican.
The book also revealed that Bush wrote in her son, Jeb Bush, who lost in the primary to Trump, on her ballot in 2016 and that she kept a countdown clock marking the end of Trump’s term on a table next to her bed.