Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during a campaign stop at Wade's Restaurant, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 in Spartanburg, S.C. | AP Photo Jeb Bush lists 4 reasons Trump's taco tweet was wrong Trump suggested he would do great with Hispanics in the general election and claimed people loved his tweet.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush rattled off the reasons Donald Trump’s Cinco de Mayo tweet was “so insensitive,” likening the act to something as offensive and stereotypical as eating a watermelon and declaring love for black people.

Trump's infamous tweet featured the presumptive Republican presidential nominee posing with a taco bowl as he proclaimed his love for Hispanics.


“Happy #CincoDeMayo!” Trump tweeted. “The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”

Trump suggested he would do great with Hispanics in the general election and claimed people loved his tweet. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus credited Trump for trying. But Bush, whose wife was born in Mexico, had nothing nice to say about the tweet and blasted his former rival.

Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! https://t.co/ufoTeQd8yA pic.twitter.com/k01Mc6CuDI — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2016

“First, not all Hispanics are Mexican. Secondly, not all Hispanics eat tacos,” Bush told a Dutch newspaper in a recent interview, according to a translation from the Huffington Post published Tuesday. “Thirdly, showing your sensitivity by eating an American dish is the most insensitive thing you can do. Fourthly, to say this, next to all things he already said, is a further insult. It’s like eating a watermelon and saying, ‘I love African-Americans.’”

Despite signing a loyalty pledge last fall, Bush has said he won’t vote for Trump in November, joining South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who acknowledged that eating a taco is unlikely to fix the GOP's problem with Hispanics. Graham called embracing Trump “embracing demographic death."

“This guy. If we lose in November, we Republicans have ourselves to blame,” Bush told NRC Handelsblad.

Bush added that it’s “uncertain” whether the Republican Party will survive. “Parties no longer stand for anything, but become a vehicle for the ambitions of their leaders,” he said. “Politics becomes a personality show.”