President Donald Trump is fond of going after his Democratic opponents, but apparently believes their indiscretions pale in comparison to one made by his Republican predecessors: George W. Bush.

In an interview from the Oval Office, Trump told HillTV what he considers to be the biggest blunder in U.S. history:

“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush,” Trump said. “Obama may have gotten them (U.S. soldiers) out wrong, but going in is to me the biggest single mistake made in the history of our country.”

“Because we spent $7 trillion in the Middle East,” the president continued. “Now if you wanna fix a window some place they say, ‘oh gee, let’s not do it. Seven trillion, and millions of lives — you know, ‘cause I like to count both sides. Millions of lives.”

Trump even said Bush’s Middle Eastern adventurism was worse than the Civil War:

“To me it’s the worst single mistake made in the history of our country. Civil war you can understand. Civil war, civil war. That’s different. For us to have gone into the Middle East, and that was just, that was a bad day for this country, I will tell you.”

When you consider the (still ongoing!) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — with a death toll in the hundreds of thousands and a price tag in the trillions — Trump might have a case here.

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