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David Frum wrote speeches for President George W. Bush and has taken credit for coining the phrase 'axis of evil' in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, then broke publicly with the conservative movement he helped define, becoming a senior editor at The Atlantic and one of its most prominent critics of Donald Trump. He was the first former administration official to publish a book about the Bush presidency.