Former president makes thinly veiled swipe at US president’s cuts to HIV and aids initiative

George W Bush has issued a rare critique of Donald Trump over his shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The former president joined Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono in an emotional video call farewell with staff at the agency on Monday when it officially ceased operations.

After six decades, the humanitarian organisation created by former president John F Kennedy to promote US national security by boosting prosperity and goodwill abroad, is being absorbed into the State Department under the supervision of Marco Rubio.

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    2 days ago

    When a piece of shit like Dubya critiques someone else, you know that someone else is on another level of shitty.

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      “he’s not even trying to dupe the nation first! he’s just… bombing them! You can do that!” is probably not criticism so much as… you know… like envy or something.