President George W. Bush, who made a special effort to avoid appearing critical of President Barack Obama in public, has shaken off much of his gentlemanly restraint now that President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office.

A new report alleges the younger Bush blasted Trump’s inaugural address as “some weird s**t” as the newly sworn-in president left the dais.

“One of the things I spent a lot of time doing was trying to convince a person like Vladimir Putin, for example, to accept the notion of an independent press.”

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The comments came to light Thursday after three sources confirmed them to New York Magazine.

Prior to the report, Bush’s presence at Trump’s inauguration was noted mostly for the former president’s brief life-or-death struggle with a poncho. Now it may be noted for Bush’s concise response to Trump’s vivid descriptions of “American carnage.”

Reports of the comments will no doubt bring joy to liberals, who have increasingly warmed to President 43 — despite spending eight years trashing him as “Bushitler” — in light of his apparent criticisms of President Trump.

In a February interview with Matt Lauer, Bush appeared to attack Trump’s comments on the threat posed by Islamic terrorism and treatment of the press. “People who murder the innocent are not religious people,” Bush said. “They want to advance an ideology. And we have faced those kind of ideologues in the past,” he continued.

“I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy,” Bush said. “That we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. Power can be very addictive. And it can be corrosive,” he continued, before taking the opportunity to implicitly connect Trump to Vladimir Putin.

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“One of the things I spent a lot of time doing was trying to convince a person like Vladimir Putin, for example, to accept the notion of an independent press,” said Bush. “It’s kind of hard to tell others to have an independent free press and we’re not willing to have one ourself [sic],” he said.

That same week, Bush directly implied in an interview with People Magazine that some of Trump’s language and policies were racist. “I don’t like the racism and I don’t like the name-calling and I don’t like people feeling alienated,” he told People on Monday. “Nobody likes that,” he said.