Bush’s comments come as Democratic governors clash with Republican President Donald Trump over the White House’s coronavirus response.
Former President George W. Bush called on Americans to abandon partisan divides in the face of the “sheer threat” of the coronavirus pandemic in a video released on Saturday.
Bush’s comments come as Democratic governors clash with Republican President Donald Trump over the White House’s coronavirus response, and even drugs that could treat the virus are politicized.
More than a million Americans have tested positive for coronavirus, and well over 60,000 people have died from the virus in the United States. The White House has said it expects total deaths to rise to 74,000 by August.
“Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this sheer threat,” Bush said. “In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together.”
In the nearly 3-minute video, shared by the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Bush said he saw the nation “embrace unavoidable new duties” after the 9/11 terror attacks, and that “spirit is alive and well in America.” The former president also issued a warning that the impact of the pandemic will not be felt equally.
“Let’s remember that the suffering we experience as a nation does not fall evenly. In the days to come, it will be especially important to care in practical ways for the elderly, the ill and the unemployed,” Bush said. More than 30 million people have filed for unemployment in the last six weeks, as the economy has largely shut down to combat the pandemic.
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Former President George W. Bush called on Americans to abandon partisan divides in the face of the "sheer threat" of the coronavirus pandemic in a new video https://t.co/tQkFkBW4lH
— POLITICO (@politico) May 2, 2020A Message from President George W. Bush@TheCalltoUnite pic.twitter.com/FIn9wuOPTF
— George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) May 2, 2020
When you see the things both George W. Bush and Barack Obama have said about how we should respond to COVID, we are reminded what real presidential leadership looks like, beyond party or politics. https://t.co/R3yan38l1u
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 2, 2020
This is marvelous. https://t.co/b7m0ICF9NS
— David French (@DavidAFrench) May 2, 2020
This is the type of message we all need to hear these days. https://t.co/fDgJo7ZHwT
— Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) May 3, 2020
And therefore president Bush’s moving statement on a global pandemic is utterly invalid! Lick some door knobs everybody! https://t.co/J9NAuIKWqO
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 3, 2020
Leave it to Trump to turn a great commentary by President Bush into a whine about the “witch hunt.” With Trump, everything is about ME-ME-ME!!!
1) I am on record as having noted just about all the critiques one would want to note about GWB in office
2) But listen to these two+ minutes, and notice how they resemble what *all* previous national leaders would have said during crisis, and how they differ from current vacuum https://t.co/3pMDx3pXxX
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) May 2, 2020
It was inevitable that Trump would go after Bush for a call for unity.
Also, I will never understand this weirdly effeminate version of the Mafia pinky finger thing he does. He has some of the strangest body language of any public figure out there. https://t.co/VSIS42hF6R
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 4, 2020
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
~ Abraham Lincoln pic.twitter.com/4ZJkecVAOz
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) May 4, 2020
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