Trump: When the only friends you have left are Bushies and neocons

In May 2025, President Donald Trump declared that the neoconservative era was over. This was of course not new rhetoric. He didn’t always live up to it, but Trump always made sure that bashing neocons and the Bush era and their endless wars were a staple in his long list of political excoriations. After all, Trump began his meteoric rise during the 2016 Republican debates when he said to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of George W., that “obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake, all rig...