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Here's what George W. Bush really thought at Trump's inauguration

Jessica Estepa
USA TODAY
Former US President George W. Bush leaves after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2017.

On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, George W. Bush sat alongside his fellow former presidents and became a meme when he struggled with a poncho.

While up on the dais, he witnessed Trump deliver a short, bleak address about how the "American carnage stops right here and stops right now."

And when Bush left, he had thoughts about what he'd witnessed.

"That was some weird (expletive)," he said, according to New York Magazine. The comment was witnessed by three people.

In the weeks since Trump assumed office, Bush has gone on the record to call the media "indispensable to democracy" and to warn against "isolationist tendency."

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