The son of former President Ronald Reagan, once a fiercely anti-Trump voice in the Republican Party, has suddenly come around.
Michael Reagan, 79, praised President Donald Trump in a series of recent social media posts, crediting his launch of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency with finding billions of dollars in wasteful spending that he said would have made his father proud. He also criticized Trump critics, who he claims have adopted a mawkish attitude about President Reagan’s legacy.
“FYI it is amazing that you all of a sudden support my father when for 8 yrs you treated him like you are treating Trump today,” he wrote in a post on X. “Give Trump time and get out of the way,” he added, noting: “Remember my dad ended up kicking your a**es.”
The sentiment by Reagan is all the more startling considering his sharp criticism of Trump after he became the GOP nominee in 2016.
“This most likely would be the 1st time if my father was alive that he would not support the nominee of the GOP,” Reagan wrote at the time, tagging then-Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus.
Reagan’s antipathy toward President Trump held through his first