Trump Handles Bush’s Death with Abnormal Normality

“For President Donald Trump, there was once no worse insult than being ‘a Bushie.’… If Trump has been thinking such thoughts since the death of former president George H.W. Bush on Saturday, he hasn’t been sharing them. Bush’s death has at least temporarily displaced Trump’s public disdain for the Bush family and, for the moment, he is even borrowing from his late predecessor’s celebrated sense of etiquette,” Politico reports.

“On Monday night, Trump visited Capitol Hill to pay personal respectsto the 41st president, whose casket arrived earlier in the day and is lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda. The display of respect even extended to the late president’s son, former President George W. Bush, whom Trump has derided as ‘the worst president ever.’ Trump offered Bush the use of his official guest residence, Blair House, while the younger Bush is in Washington for the events surrounding his father’s funeral.”

“In short, the president is behaving normally — a jarring rarity for a man who casually shatters sacred political norms.”