--- title: Donald Trump Dodges Bald Eagle: Jeb Bush Responds description: But first, he needed confirmation that the footage was real canonical: https://time.com/4145708/donald-trump-bald-eagle-jeb-bush/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-11T16:11:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:46.421Z og:title: Jeb Bush Weighs In on Donald Trump and the Bald Eagle og:description: "Looked like the eagle scared him a little bit" og:url: https://time.com/4145708/donald-trump-bald-eagle-jeb-bush/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde683896348244fe/698874800b72e372186e7309/donald-trump-bald-eagle-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2640 og:image:height: 1485 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Eagle Attack og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jeb Bush Weighs In on Donald Trump and the Bald Eagle twitter:description: "Looked like the eagle scared him a little bit" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde683896348244fe/698874800b72e372186e7309/donald-trump-bald-eagle-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jeb Bush Weighs In on Donald Trump and the Bald Eagle > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 11, 2015 4:11 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 11, 2015 4:11 PM UTC Earlier this week, we published [video footage](http://time.com/4141783/time-person-of-the-year-runner-up-donald-trump-eagle-gif/) — along with one memorable GIF — of Donald Trump dodging a bald eagle during his [TIME cover shoot](http://time.com/4003734/donald-trump-interview-transcript/) in August. Trump later [insisted](http://time.com/4144451/trump-not-really-frightened-bald-eagle/) that he was not really frightened by the bird. But another presidential nominee, Jeb Bush, has weighed in — and seems to think Trump was definitely scared.  GIF by TIME _Business Insider_ [asked](http://www.businessinsider.com/jeb-bush-donald-trump-bald-eagle-gif-video-2015-12) Bush if he’d seen the footage. At first, Bush laughed and said, “Yeah, I don’t know if it was real or not. Was it real?” Once he got confirmation that the footage was, indeed, very much real, he seemed to get a little more serious. “Looked like the eagle scared him a little bit,” he said. _Read next:_ [_Jeb Bush’s Daring Challenge to the Donald Trump Celebrity Circus_](http://time.com/4144366/jeb-bush-donald-trump-republican/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4145708/donald-trump-bald-eagle-jeb-bush/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4145708/donald-trump-bald-eagle-jeb-bush/"},"headline":"Jeb Bush Weighs In on Donald Trump and the Bald Eagle","datePublished":"2015-12-11T16:11:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:46.421Z","description":"But first, he needed confirmation that the footage was real","url":"https://time.com/4145708/donald-trump-bald-eagle-jeb-bush/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde683896348244fe/698874800b72e372186e7309/donald-trump-bald-eagle-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde683896348244fe/698874800b72e372186e7309/donald-trump-bald-eagle-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Eagle Attack","caption":"Donald Trump Eagle Attack","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4145708/donald-trump-bald-eagle-jeb-bush/","name":"Jeb Bush Weighs In on Donald Trump and the Bald Eagle"}}]}] ```