Ronald Reagan’s Son Michael: I’m Not Voting For Trump And Neither Would My Dad

[L. Coyote]

Ronald Reagan’s Son: I’m Not Voting For Trump And Neither Would My Dad
Michael Reagan said Trump is the first GOP presidential candidate his father wouldn’t support.
06/06/2016

Michael Reagan, a son of former President Ronald Reagan, tweeted Monday that he won’t vote for Donald Trump and doesn’t think his late father would have supported the presumptive GOP nominee.

Reagan said he wouldn’t vote for Trump in the California primary on Tuesday. He followed that tweet with another that said that if his father were alive today, this would likely be the first time he wouldn’t back his party’s presidential candidate. ... view tweets

[MADem]

1. He doesn't know how his father would vote. The man didn't even

recognize him when he spoke at his graduation. They weren't close. Jane Wyman adopted him when she was still with Ronald, and Nancy didn't care for that other family.


Michael wrote a sullen "They Were Mean to Me" book back in the eighties. Read all about it: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-04-17/features/8803090826_1_michael-reagan-four-reagan-children-maureen

Now that Saint Ronnie of Raygun has become a conservative icon, he's getting over all that Poor Pitiful Me stuff and completely re-vamping the relationship.

I think he was telling the truth the first time around. I don't agree with his politics at all, but he did have a shitty childhood:

His life, as the child of one of Hollywood`s golden couples, should have been one long Technicolor adventure, filled with ponies and parties, but it wasn`t. Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman divorced when he was 3 and there was no room for children in either the Wyman household or the Reagan family. Michael Reagan was shipped off to boarding school when he was 6. He spent two days a month with each parent. He remembers having to fight for their attention, and losing.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Hey, now he and his half brother Ron Jr. have something in common.

[LibDemAlways]

5. I remember in the 80's that he embarrassed

his father by revealing that Reagan had never met his son who by then was 3 years old. What kind of grandfather doesn't make time to see a grandchild? Jeez, when my daughter was born my dad couldn't get there fast enough.

That was always an odd family. Both of Reagan's kids with Nancy have spoken of how their parents never really made room for them. They were outsiders in their own home. Very cold people.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Revising history to favor Dutch has been a recurring theme of this cycle.

Personally I think Ronald Reagan would have been silent about Trump for seven years in spite of massive protests and a growing death toll.

[MADem]

10. Zing!!!

I have to concur!!!

[pansypoo53219]

3. REALLY??? mr fucking welfare queen dog whiter extraordinaire??

mr tinkle down? i don't buy it. unless he meant after the AZ.

[Skittles]

4. LOL

your dad would only be shocked that Trump is saying all his garbage out loud

[melman]

6. This is good

For this guy with that last name to be saying that...it's good.

[L. Coyote]

9. Exactly. We need morte people stepping up and saying this stuff.

Of course, it is all moot if Trump isn't the nominee.

[FSogol]

8. Reagan is just a more mannered version of Trump. They are identical.

Trump is just more crass.