Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Tuesday criticized front-runner Donald Trump's comments about Black Lives Matter protesters and Muslim-Americans, accusing the billionaire of trying to “create a grievous kind of culture."

“Our country is too good for this,” Bush said in South Carolina, according to CNN. 

“This whole idea of preying on people’s deep-seated fears of what the future looks like is not going to work as a campaign tactic over the long haul,” he added. 

The former Florida governor slammed Trump for claiming that thousands of Muslim-Americans in New Jersey cheered as the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, and said the roughing up of a Black Lives Matter protestor would never happen at one of his events. 

“This is just wrong,” Bush said. “What I remember was a lot of peaceful Muslims disheartened and sad and angry.” 

Bush also said that Trump’s “broad-brush attack on people who are as American as anybody else” is “not gonna work.” 

Trump, the GOP primary leader, has 27.5 percent support according to a RealClearPolitics average of national polls. Bush is in fifth place with 5.5 percent.