Ronald Reagans son on the Trumps: weve got a bunch of grifters in the WH
Ron Reagan is former President Ronald Reagan’s youngest child. His and Patti Davis’ mom is Nancy Reagan (Michael and Maureen Reagan’s mom was Jane Wyman). The notable thing about Ron and Patti is how much their politics ran in opposition to their parents. While Patti was openly feuding with her mother in the media over her father’s nuclear arsenal, Ron kept pretty quiet about his views until his father left office for good. Ron claimed it was because the media didn’t care but I suspect it was more on Ron’s part out of respect for his dad. Ron, who is a former radio personality and actually had a pretty decent show, called into CNN over the weekend to discuss The Trump White House. Given Ron has maintained his liberal values, is not too surprising that Ron is unimpressed with the Trump Dynasty, basically calling the whole lot a bunch of grifters.
Ron Reagan — the son of former president Ronald Reagan and former first lady Nancy Reagan — is speaking out about Donald Trump’s administration.
Ron, 62, appeared on CNN Sunday and said that Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are unqualified for their roles as the president’s advisors.
“Well, they’re certainly entitled to go campaign for their dad,” Ron said of Trump’s children. “My eldest brother and sister did that, and there’s nothing wrong with that. When you cross the line is — I hate to say it here and I don’t mean to be blunt — but we’ve got a bunch of grifters there in the White House. They’re treating this as a grift.”
Ron went on to explain that the Trump family is “mixing business with pleasure.”
“They’re using the hotels and the golf clubs to profit off the presidency,” he said. “Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have no qualifications whatsoever to be in the position they’re in. Zero. Zip. And they’re using it to make money, basically.”
I detect nothing wrong in Ron’s words. My parents have used this exact term, repeatedly. And that’s what makes #45’s giant Snake Oil Sales Pitch rallies so much sadder, that so many are still buying it. I have likened Trumps’ White House to the Mob, hiring family because they can’t testify against you and all that. But I suppose grifting is a better analogy because #45 is constantly changing his grift when he gets caught, sometimes mid-sentence. I was talking to a friend the other day about my desire that, should we be lucky enough to elect this SOB out of office, can he go away and just never, ever be mentioned again. Can we erase him from history and never have to hear or talk about him or his disreputable family a hangers-ons? She brought up history repeating itself and so on, so we settled on a five-year #45 silence (I know, but a girl can dream).
The other big headline pull from Ron R’s CNN talk was that he said his father, would be, “horrified with the Republican party right now.” I didn’t lead with that because I don’t agree that he would. Pres. Reagan (also a former Democrat, like #45, although Reagan’s conversion was probably more swayed by Nancy than anything) would be embarrassed that the GOP was showing its slip, but ‘horrified’ is overselling it. Reagan, as president, would not have stood for the party not falling in line with him. Ron can talk about “integrity”, “decency” and “patriotism,” but his father would have done whatever he needed to get what he wanted. The difference is Reagan would have been quieter about it and he definitely would have let Nancy control his Twitter account.
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