In an ideal world, the future of a major political party wouldn’t be contested between two different extended families. But that idea was raised today by the current president’s son.
It’s one of those odd political rabbit holes that happens all the time these days, and ultimately leads back to nothing.
It all started with an X post by something called “The Calvin Coolidge Project.” What is the Calvin Coolidge Project? Rather than what one would think — some type of effort to extol the legacy of the 30th president of the United States — it appears to just be an engagement bait social media account, with a bio that says “The Calvin Coolidge Project delivers you the latest Breaking News so you are informed on current events.” None of which appears to have anything to do with President Coolidge.
Anyway, the post stated that “Report: The Bush family is planning to reclaim control of the Republican Party when the Trump presidency comes to an end.”
🚨Report: The Bush family is planning to reclaim control of the Republican Party when the Trump presidency comes to an end pic.twitter.com/u69kfKaRdf
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) November 21, 2025
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What is the “report” stating that? The “Coolidge Project” does not link to one. The Daily Mail reported earlier this week about the life today of former President George W. Bush, and it included a section stating that “rumors are stirring of a plot to end the so-called ‘Bush Exile’ and take back the GOP from the so-called scourge of Trumpism.” It adds that Bush himself, who has been reluctant to say anything about Donald Trump over the years, “may not be averse to quietly helping to shape the Republican Party’s long-term future.”
The piece shows that some allied with the Bush family are eying the future of Republican politics after Trump is gone, but the Mail piece, thinly sourced as it is, at no point comes anywhere close to stating that the Bush family themselves are “planning to reclaim control of the Republican Party.”
After all, no Bush is currently in elected office anywhere in the country. George P. Bush, Jeb Bush’s son, lost a primary for attorney general of Texas in 2022, and that was the last prominent election run by any member of the family, although Jonathan Bush, a relatively obscure cousin of the family, is planning to run for governor of Maine in 2026.
At any rate, Donald Trump, Jr., quoting that Coolidge “report,” vowed not to let the Bushes back into power:
We will never let this happen. https://t.co/oO8RC3w4AW
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 21, 2025
That would appear to indicate that Don Jr. and other members of the Trump family have some ideas of where the GOP might go after President Trump is out of office, but it might be preferably, after 2028, to let another family have a chance, for a change.
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