Report: Bush Family Plotting Comeback to Retake GOP from Trump

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Report: Bush Family Plotting Comeback to Retake GOP from Trump

Elizabeth Weibel 19 Nov 2025

Former President George W. Bush and his family are reportedly planning to retake the Republican Party from President Donald Trump once he is out of office, according to a recent report.

There are allegedly “rumors” stirring that there is a “plot to end the so-called ‘Bush Exile'” as part of an effort to take control of the GOP from Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) policies, according to the Daily Mail:

    Now, rumors are stirring of a plot to end the so-called ‘Bush Exile’ and take back the GOP from the so-called scourge of Trumpism.

    Behind the scenes, and still with deep connections around the country, a shadow Republican Party is lying in wait to take over when Trump is gone.

    And, while the former president is determined not to publicly criticize Trump – much to the frustration of some of his former aides – he may not be averse to quietly helping to shape the Republican Party’s long-term future.

One person, who is described as a “former Bush official,” told the outlet that Trump “knows that there’s no third term option,” while admitting that Vice President JD Vance “has a head start” over other possible Republican presidential candidates in 2028.

The former Bush official also predicted that “there will be a big open field within the Republican Party” for the 2028 presidential race, according to the outlet.

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele has also been reported as pleading for the former president to get involved in the party, stating that he has “a voice that would resonate with a lot more Americans,” according to the outlet.

Breitbart News reported that in an interview with CBS News host Norah O’Donnell in 2021, Bush revealed he felt that Trump “lacked the ‘humility’ necessary to be an effective leader.”

Breitbart News’s John Binder reported that in October 2019, during Trump’s first term as president, Bush also claimed Trump’s “isolationist United States” was “destabilizing around the world.” Bush warned that the U.S. becoming isolationist was “dangerous for the sake of peace.”

Bush’s comments at the time came after he led the nation “into war in Afghanistan and Iraq with more than 4,500 Americans dying in Iraq — including more than 3,500 killed in combat.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/19/report-bush-family-plotting-comeback-retake-gop-trump/

[Kamaji]

No.  That ship sailed a long time ago, and shouldn’t be allowed back into port.

[andy58-in-nh]

Read My Lips: no more stupid foreign wars that other people's kids have to fight for globalist interests.

[Kamaji]

Read My Lips: no more stupid foreign wars that other people's kids have to fight for globalist interests.

Are you referring to Bush or Trump?

[Camp]

This story is hilarious on so many levels.

The Bush family retreated to private life after Jeb was mocked for his pathetic campaign.  A good and reasonable move.

Nobody exiled them.  They just lost the party on policy and delivery of policy.

Just exactly WHO would represent them now or in 2028?

Chelsea Clinton maybe.

The Bush family two faced the voters on the border and we won't be going back to that insufferable policy again.

Exiled...implies such grandeur.

 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Read My Lips: no more stupid foreign wars that other people's kids have to fight for globalist interests.

Are you referring to Bush or Trump?

Are you saying Trump is starting more stupid foreign wars?

[Cyber Liberty]

Are you saying Trump is starting more stupid foreign wars?

Venezuela has the potential of becoming a problem, but I doubt very much that Trump would handle it like the Bushies did with Iraq and Afghanistan.  None of that nation building "hearts and minds" bullshit.

It would probably be more like Grenada.  Invade, kick the asses that need kicking and then leave it to the Venezuelans.

[Bigun]

This story is hilarious on so many levels.

The Bush family retreated to private life after Jeb was mocked for his pathetic campaign.  A good and reasonable move.

Nobody exiled them.  They just lost the party on policy and delivery of policy.

Just exactly WHO would represent them now or in 2028?

Chelsea Clinton maybe.

The Bush family two faced the voters on the border and we won't be going back to that insufferable policy again.

Exiled...implies such grandeur.

 

 

[catfish1957]

Bushes?  Ohhhh. HELL No!!!!!

W wasted more of our national financial resources than any other POTUS in history.

[catfish1957]

This story is hilarious on so many levels.

The Bush family retreated to private life after Jeb was mocked for his pathetic campaign.  A good and reasonable move.

Nobody exiled them.  They just lost the party on policy and delivery of policy.

Just exactly WHO would represent them now or in 2028?

Chelsea Clinton maybe.

The Bush family two faced the voters on the border and we won't be going back to that insufferable policy again.

Exiled...implies such grandeur.

 

Nailed this one.....   

[DefiantMassRINO]

Nope.  It's Trump's party.  After Trump, who knows?  But, it certainly won't revert to the Bush regime.

Bush '43 was an unmitigated disaster for the GOP.  His presidency ended with two ongoing forever wars, foreign nation building, Big Government expansion, and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  Where was the conservatism?

[Wingnut]

Lets leave the bushes to the mexican landscapers and out of polotics.

[andy58-in-nh]

Are you referring to Bush or Trump?

Anyone.

[verga]

This story is hilarious on so many levels.

The Bush family retreated to private life after Jeb was mocked for his pathetic campaign.  A good and reasonable move.

Nobody exiled them.  They just lost the party on policy and delivery of policy.

Just exactly WHO would represent them now or in 2028?

Chelsea Clinton maybe.

The Bush family two faced the voters on the border and we won't be going back to that insufferable policy again.

Exiled...implies such grandeur.

 

OH HELL NO!!!! Fear of suspension led me to edit my thoughts.

[GtHawk]

I think a really good add would be one showing Georgie boy cozying up with Willie and Barry and asking ‘ Whose side are they on, America’s or the Socialist Democrats?’.

[mountaineer]

Who will lead the charge of the Bush Brigade, one of GHWB/Barbara's grandkids, or even a great-grandkid? 

[libertybele]

Not going to happen; after all W's the one that appointed John Roberts!

Jeb! lost pitifully against Trump and turned out to be an embarrassment to the Bush name .

[Smokin Joe]

Not going to happen; after all W's the one that appointed John Roberts!

Jeb! lost pitifully against Trump and turned out to be an embarrassment to the Bush name .

Considering Robert's legislative skills led to rewriting a penalty as a tax so he could pass it, we would have never had the Obamacare bone of contention in the last CR battle promulgating a multitude of lies about how Republicans were going to take people's health care away.

Not to mention how we got attacked by a slew of Saudi nationals led by a relative of the Saudi royal family, and turned around and attacked Iraq and Afghanistan, launching the longest war in our history and setting up the Biden arms giveaway.

No, no more Bushes.

[catfish1957]

Who will lead the charge of the Bush Brigade, one of GHWB/Barbara's grandkids, or even a great-grandkid? 

For a political family based in Texas, nowadays a Bush couldn't get elected Dog Catcher in Loving County.  Getting kissey with the Obamas has consequences.

[verga]

Not going to happen; after all W's the one that appointed John Roberts!

Jeb! lost pitifully against Trump and turned out to be an embarrassment to the Bush name .

He was an embarrassment long before he lost to Trump.

[jmyrlefuller]

Who will lead the charge of the Bush Brigade, one of GHWB/Barbara's grandkids, or even a great-grandkid? 

The last one I remember seeking office was George P. Bush, Jeb's son.

[catfish1957]

The last one I remember seeking office was George P. Bush, Jeb's son.

After losing to Paxton in the last Texas AG primary race by 35%, his political career is pretty much over.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

No.  That ship sailed a long time ago, and shouldn’t be allowed back into port.

  Just let that dang ship sink!! 

[rustynail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjLUS0Lt-8