Who was worse, George W. Bush or Donald Trump?

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 206 points –

Just watched the Boy Boy video on George Bush’s Masterclass, and they made me think about which U.S. President was actually worse.

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Trump: Started 0 wars. Caused 0 economic crises. Bush: Started 2 wars (Iraq, Afghanistan). Caused the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

If you can’t even mention the failed coup, it’s obvious who you still support.

If it happened in any other country, it would have been called a coup or insurrection by the media, for sure.

I'm not sure how you can claim with a straight face that Trump caused 0 economic crises when we're still in the process of recovering from a economic crisis tied to a massively bungled initial pandemic response. Remember how Trump and his cronies came out every day for about 4 months and pretended that there was no pandemic, that it was under control, and that it would magically disappear by easter 2020? That cost the world a lot of money and, much more importantly, a lot of human lives.

As for war and war crimes, Trump removed all transparency around drone strike operations that had been in place during the Obama administration, so...

Second source: https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-secret-rules-for-drone-strikes-and-presidents-unchecked-license-to-kill

Unlike every other country that handled it perfectly right?