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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer Jeb! backer compares Trump presidency to a chimp driving a tractor
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273752-former-jeb-operative-trump-doesnt-understand-theThe man who ran a super-PAC backing Jeb Bushs unsuccessful White House run says electing Donald Trump as president would be "like putting a chimp in the drivers seat of a tractor....
He has no understanding of presidential powers. He has no understanding of Congress. Its like putting a chimp in the drivers seat of a tractor. Hes not going to plow the field. Hes going to drive the tractor into the lake....
The stakes are high, he said. "And having problems is not a license to vote stupid. People need the tractor to plow the damn field now....
We turn into Paraguay (if Trump is elected president), Murphy added. "Which is probably an insult to Paraguay.
He has no understanding of presidential powers. He has no understanding of Congress. Its like putting a chimp in the drivers seat of a tractor. Hes not going to plow the field. Hes going to drive the tractor into the lake....
The stakes are high, he said. "And having problems is not a license to vote stupid. People need the tractor to plow the damn field now....
We turn into Paraguay (if Trump is elected president), Murphy added. "Which is probably an insult to Paraguay.
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Former Jeb! backer compares Trump presidency to a chimp driving a tractor (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2016
OP
So jeb's surrogate is comparing trump to his big brother. Oh brother!
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#4
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)1. It's also an insult to chimps n/t
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)2. Bushistas know
Something about chimps
Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts)3. Where has a nexus between chimps and presidents existed before?
Hmmmmm.
I know there used to be one. I guess Johnny Bush is unaware of it.
Gotta love irony, huh?
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)4. So jeb's surrogate is comparing trump to his big brother. Oh brother!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)5. remember when this used to be sort of funny, til he destroyed the world?
check this out for a little nostalgia:
https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+bell+bush+chimp&biw=911&bih=415&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTq6GN89LLAhVpv4MKHVTiCwoQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1.5
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)6. Paraguay doesn't have nukes!!!!
Need I say more?
malaise
(269,026 posts)7. At least Dumbya followed their orders
milestogo
(16,829 posts)8. I didn't know the Chimp in Chief could drive
except for driving the country to economic ruin.