Politics | Steve Bannon Bannon: Bush Didn't Understand His Own Speech He slams 'destructive' Bush for Trump criticism By Rob Quinn Posted Oct 21, 2017 8:08 AM CDT Copied Steve Bannon, former strategist for President Trump, speaks at at the California Republican Convention in Anaheim, Calf., on Friday Oct. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) Steve Bannon has published plenty of criticisms of the Trump administration since returning to Breitbart—but he's not happy about George W. Bush joining in with criticism from a different angle. In an address to the dinnertime banquet of the California Republican Party convention Friday night, Bannon apologized to any "Bush folks" in the audience before launching a blistering attack on the former president over a speech he saw as critical of President Trump, the Washington Post reports. "The speechwriter wrote a highfalutin speech," Bannon said, but "it's clear [Bush] didn’t understand anything he was talking about." "He has no earthly idea whether he’s coming or going, just like it was when he was president of the United States," Bannon continued, describing Bush's presidency as the most "destructive" in American history. Bush didn't mention Trump by name in his speech Thursday, but he spoke out against bullying, conspiracy theories, and white supremacism. Bannon's speech was the latest attack on the GOP establishment in what he has described as a "season of war "ahead of next year's midterm elections, the Hill reports. Read These Next A big shake-up at the top of Ben and Jerry's hierarchy. The woman whose review of her local Olive Garden went viral has died. Trump tell reporter, 'Maybe they'll have to go after you.' Publishers Clearing House's 'forever' prizes were a lie. Report an error