The following article by Avi Selk was posted on the Washington Post website January 28, 2018:
Comedian Will Ferrell returned to SNL on Jan. 27 to portray the former president, who has seen higher approval ratings since he left office. (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)
President Trump’s time in office has been good for George W. Bush. The latter’s ratings were about as dismal as Trump’s current ones when he left the White House in 2009, but they have skyrocketed lately as people compare Bush with his historically unpopular Republican successor.
Enter Will Ferrell, who has spent much of the 21st century brutally parodying Bush as a slack-jawed, gibberish-spewing, catastrophically destructive idiot president. He returned to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend to remind us why. Continue reading “SNL worries Trump made us forget the misery of the Bush presidency”