Reagan Foundation Tells Trump To Stop Using Reagan’s Likeness. LOL!

James Hannon
2 min readJul 26, 2020

“The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, which runs the 40th president’s library near Los Angeles, has demanded that President Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) quit raising campaign money by using Ronald Reagan’s name and likeness,” the Washington Post reports.

Worth noting: Reagan is the guy who opened his successful 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia…

Mississippi, where the three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. Also the guy who ran against welfare queens driving Cadillacs, who argued that ketchup was a vegetable and satisfied as one for school lunches. Yeah, the guy who supported dictators in Central America because they killed union organizers and preserved cheap labor for U.S corporations who took jobs away from American workers. That Reagan.

The one who OK’d the proxy wars in Central America and the paramilitary death squads who slaughtered tens of thousands, including my friend, Sr. Maura Clarke, one of four Maryknolls kidnapped, raped and slaughtered by one of the death squads trained by the CIA and School of the Americas at Fort Benning, GA. That guy. The same one who cut taxes on the rich and simultaneously increased defense spending, thereby exploding the national debt. Iran/Contra. That guy.

The one who began the 40 yr. descent of the Republican Party into the win at any cost coalition of the wealthy, evangelical dupes, and white people whom Reagan helped convince that their real enemies were people of color, not the bosses who have been laughing at them since Reconstruction. That Reagan.

And the Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute wants to distance themselves from Trump. That’s how toxic Trump has become.

But LOL, Reagan Institute….both too late and too ridiculous. What has been joined together can not be torn asunder.

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James Hannon

Sociologist, therapist, Quaker, 12-stepper. Outside shooter in the long game. Jameshannonpoetryplus.com. I try to remember to pay attention.