Jeb Bush: The president shouldn’t be ‘unpredictable’

Jeb Bush on Thursday critiqued GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda, saying the country needs a leader with a “steady hand,” not one who promotes unpredictability while working with allies.

{mosads}“I think we need a president with a steady hand,” Bush told CNN. “The idea that a president should be unpredictable is not really the way history has been written.

“The successful presidents have been clear about their vision, have laid out the agenda, and with foreign policy, our friends know we have their back and our enemies fear us, and there’s a constancy by American leadership. He’s proposing the exact opposite.”

The former Florida governor was responding to Trump’s foreign policy address in Washington Wednesday in which he said U.S. foreign policy needed to be “unpredictable” to keep the world guessing.

“We must, as a nation, be more unpredictable,” Trump said. “We have to be unpredictable, starting now.”

Bush dropped out of the race for the presidency in February after a poor showing in the South Carolina primary. He endorsed Trump’s rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, last month.