The late Barbara Bush woke up the morning after Election Day 2016 and was horrified to learn Donald Trump would be president. But as a former first lady she extended a warm hand to Melania Trump – even though she had expected Hillary Clinton to win.
In a warm letter that appears in 'The Matriarch,' a book that goes on sale April 2, Bush wrote two weeks later that Mrs. Trump would have to balance the demands of her new role with the needs of her family.
And she said she was 'glad' Bill Clinton wasn't about to fill her former shoes, USA Today reporter Susan Page writes.
'The world thought I was writing this note to Bill Clinton. I am glad that I am not,' Mrs. Bush wrote.
She had already drafted a funny note of congratulations to the former president.
Author Susan Page writes that Bush told her: 'It said, "Welcome to the First Ladies Club. We can’t wait to initiate you".'
The late former first lady Barbara Bush (left) wrote a warm letter to incoming first lady Melania Trump a few weeks after the 2016 presidential election, telling her she should feel free to stay in New York instead of moving to the White House right away if it was in her son's best interest
President Donald Trump's slash-and-burn style bothered Mrs. Bush to the point where it alienated her from the Republican Party, and she believed it exacerbated her heart problems
She never mailed that one.
Former President Bill Clinton would have become the first man to inhabit the traditional 'first lady' role if his wife Hillary had beaten Trump in 2016, and Barbara Bush had a zinger ready for him in a letter she never send him
Her letter to Mrs. Trump came at a time when newspapers speculated about whether Melania would stay in New York until Barron, then 10 years old, finished the school year. Some reports suggested she wouldn't move to Washington at all.
'My children were older and there fore I did not have the problems you do. Whatever you decide to do is your business and yours alone,' Mrs. Bush wrote.
'If you decide to stay in NYC,' she advised, 'that will be fine also.'
And the former first lady offered one piece of unsolicited advice in the event she chose to continue living in Trump Tower: 'When you come to the White House let your son bring a friend.'
Mrs. Bush also wrote to Mike and Karen Pence, telling them 'how much fun I had as the wife of the VP,' and saying what a 'lovely house' they would be living in.
She was second lady for eight years when George H.W. Bush was vice president under President Ronald Reagan.
Nearly a quarter-century after she left the White House, Mrs. Bush found herself contemplating the presidency of a flamboyant billionaire real estate tycoon who had blasted her son Jeb as a 'low-energy' loser during the Republican primary season.
'I woke up and discovered, to my horror, that Trump had won,' she told Page.
Bush came to hate Donald Trump so much that she kept a 'countdown clock' in her bedroom, ticking off the seconds until he would leave office.
The former first lady died in April 2018 at the age of 92. Her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, passed away seven months later.
Mrs. Bush also blamed the current president for a flare-up of her congenital cardiac condition, a moment she thought was a heart attack at the time. And she was so bothered by the brand of Republicanism Trump brought to the house where she once lived for four years that she had a hard time identifying with the GOP.
Mrs. Bush hated Donald Trump so much that she kept a countdown clock by her bed, tracking the seconds until his first term was over
A friend in Kennebunkport, Maine gave her a clock like this one, according to a new book about the Bush matriarch, and she liked it so much she brought it with her when she moved back to Houston
Asked last year if she still considered herself a Republican, she replied: 'I'd probably say no today.'
She couldn't bring herself to vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in 2016. She wrote in Jeb's name instead.
USA Today journalist Susan Page's book 'The Matriarch' will hit stores in April
And that countdown clock was by her bedside when she died.
'After Trump was elected, a friend in Kennebunkport gave her a Trump countdown clock as a joke,' Page writes in 'The Matriarch,' which goes on sale April 2. 'The red, white, and blue digital clock displayed how many days, hours, minutes and seconds remained in Trump’s term.'
'She liked the countdown clock so much that when the Bushes returned to Houston that October, she brought it with her. It sat on her bedside table, where she could see it every day. It was there to the day she died. '
But ultimately, Mrs. Bush was hopeful that the U.S. would survive what she saw as a painfully disruptive episode that turned the presidency on its ear.
'I'm trying not to think about it,' she said, nearly a year after Trump took office.
'We're a strong country, and I think it will all work out.'
Page recalled her 2016 pronouncement after Trump ridiculed Jeb for deploying her to campaign for him during the New Hampshire Primary season.
'Just watched Jeb’s ad where he desperately needed mommy to help him,' Trump had tweeted. 'Jeb—mom cannot help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin.'
'Putin endorsed him, for heaven’s sake,' Mrs. Bush erupted. 'Putin the killer! Putin the worst! He endorsed Trump! That’s an endorsement you don’t want.'
After her death, the thrice-married Trump took a moment during a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to quip: 'Melania and I send our prayers to Barbara’s husband of 73 years. I’ll never beat that record.'
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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