Michael Reagan: Trump Has My Dad's 'Passion'

(Frederic J. Brown//AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump shares an important characteristic with President Ronald Reagan — and it could serve him well in next Thursday's first GOP debate of presidential candidates, commentator Michael Reagan tells Newsmax TV.

In an interview Friday with "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth, the son of the late president says the surging Trump speaks with the kind of "passion" his father so brilliantly conveyed.

"The best thing that these candidates can do is be themselves," Reagan said. "America wants to see who they are and what they represent and where they want to take America."

Reagan added "consultants get rich from these campaigns and meanwhile they give us losers."

"I want to see, and America wants to see, that campaign that says 'you know something, this is where I want to take America. I am passionate about it. These are my issues. This is what I want to do,'" Reagan said.

"That's why America right now has surrounded Trump, in this case, because he's off the cuff and he speaks from his own passion."

Reagan recalled a 1980 debate in which his father showed a rare flash of anger over the order of speakers, exclaiming, "I am paying for this microphone" — and helped turn the tide of his campaign in New Hampshire.

"[T]hat night my [late] sister Maureen and I… looked at each other … and said 'it's about damn time you lost your temper' because we had never seen our dad ever lose his temper — ever raise his voice at all to the children, to anybody — and then all of a sudden he comes up with that one and we said 'bravo Dad. It's about time. You deserve to be able to, in fact, do that,'" he recalled.

Reagan also teed off on Hillary Clinton's email scandal, asserting it won't topple her from the top of the Democratic heap in the presidential primary because of "the power that is wheeled by the Clintons" in the party — but that it might "eat her alive" in the general election.

"We've seen over the years that nothing really sticks to Bill [Clinton] but everything sticks to Hillary Clinton," he said. "The one thing that Bill has that Hillary Clinton has never had is likability. She is not likable and she certainly isn't relatable."

"Bill Clinton would get elected today again if he were the nominee of the Democrat Party and we had nobody run against him… she's hoping that just simply being a woman and selling that will bring the women to her table, but I don't think that's ever going to happen."

"I hope these emails eat her alive but [that] she stays at the top of the heap for the Democrats," he said. "[A]nyone of our possible candidates out there can beat Hillary Clinton in November of 2016."

Via: Newsmax

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Reagan’s Son Accuses The Butler of Falsely Portraying His Father as a ‘Racist’

In a Tuesday column for NewsMax, Michael Reagan accused Lee Daniels’ The Butler of falsely portraying his father, President Ronald Reagan, as a “racist.”

“There you go again, Hollywood,” Reagan began. “You’ve taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies.” Not only does Reagan believe the movie inaccurately portrayed his father, he believes it also took too many creative liberties with the life of White House butler Eugene Allen, citing many of the inaccuracies already pointed out byThe Daily Beast.

“It’s appalling to me that someone is trying to imply my father was a racist,” wrote Michael, the adopted son of Pres. Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman. “He and Nancy and the rest of the Reagan family treated Mr Allen with the utmost respect. It was Nancy Reagan who invited the butler to dinner – not to work but as guest. And it was my father who promoted Mr Allen to maître d’hôtel.”

Michael asserted that it was “simplistic and dishonest” for the film to suggestion that Ronald Reagan was “racist” because of his support for ending economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa. The facts of Ronald Reagan’s life, Michael argued, show otherwise:

If you knew my father, you’d know he was the last person on Earth you would call a racist.

If Strong had gotten his “facts” from the Reagan biographies, he’d have learned that when my father was playing football at Eureka College one of his best friends was a black teammate.

Strong also would have learned that my father invited black players home for dinner and once, when two players were not allowed to stay in the local hotel, he invited them to stay overnight at his house.

Screenwriter Strong also might have found out that when my father was governor of California he appointed more blacks to positions of power than any of his predecessors — combined.

Ultimately, Michael wrote, the movie’s depiction of the president is “simply Hollywood liberals wanting to believe something about my father that was never there.”

He concluded: “Despite what Hollywood’s liberal hacks believe, my father didn’t see people in colors. He saw them as individual Americans. If the liberals in Hollywood — and Washington — ever start looking at people the way he did, the country will be a lot better off.”

Via: Mediaite.com

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