Former Presidents Obama, George W. Bush, and Clinton recorded a three-minute video from Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, praising peaceful presidential succession as a core principle of American democracy. The segment included no mention of Trump by name but stood as a stark rebuke of his behavior since losing November’s election.
Also not mentioned are the tens of millions of voters that are now disenfranchised with the ability of the government to hear and act for all people.
They gave themselves accolades while ignoring the elephant in the room by not mentioning former President Trump or their inexcusable behaviors towards him for the past 4 years.
“I think the fact that the three of us are standing here, talking about a peaceful transfer of power, speaks to the institutional integrity of our country,” Bush said. Obama called inaugurations, in a stock response, “a reminder that we can have fierce disagreements and yet recognize each other’s common humanity and that, as Americans, we have more in common than what separates us.”
