George W Bush snubs Melania Trump's White House event honoring his mother

First Lady Melania Trump is hosting an event in the White House to unveil a postage stamp honoring former first lady Barbara Bush . But his son George W Bush plans to skip the event in the greatest snub to Melania and also President Donald Trump. Reports said he did not even offer any plausible excuse for his absence. Other Bus family members, however, are expected to attend, including Doro Bush Koch, George W. Bush’s younger sister who is listed as one of several featured speakers at the unveiling, and Alice Yates, chief executive of the George and Barbara Bush Foundation

Barbara Bush died in 2018 at 92.

The Bush family and the Trumps do not go well. Barbara Bush called Trump a "symbol of greed" according toa biography that came out after her death. “I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be. Look what I did to her sons,” Trump said in 2019. He meant Jeb Bush who had to drop out of the presidential election in 2016 in the primary after being defeated by Donald Trump.

George W Bush did not endorse Trump in any of the three presidential runs though he congratulated him on his victories both the times and attended both his inaugurations. This time too, Bush and former first last Laura Bush attended Trump's inauguration but did not stay for the luncheon.

Bush did not cast a ballot for Trump in 2016, and said that in 2020 he wrote in the name of his former secretary of state and national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice.

After leaving office in 2021, Trump said Bush “led a failed and uninspiring presidency,” and that Bush was “responsible for getting us into the quicksand of the Middle East (and then not winning!)”

This latest snub, though it hits Melania Trump the most as she is the hostess of the event, is not targeted at her and is actually for Donald Trump.