Washington like to invoke President Reagan’s name often when they criticize President Trump. They say or at least insinuate that Donald Trump is nothing like Ronald Reagan. They say the current president’s approach is nothing like the vision championed by Ronald Reagan at the height of the Cold War as we grappled with the Soviets and ultimately prevail. But those folks are wrong. They’re dead wrong. Most who invoke Ronald Reagan’s name today, especially self-styled Republican hawks, are not much like Ronald Reagan. The policies they’ve championed are nothing like his. In fact, for the better part of 30 years, they’ve been quite the opposite. If you look at actual policies, Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan. It’s President Trump who has inherited and restored President Reagan’s powerful but focused and realistic approach to national defense. It’s therefore only fitting that we gather at the Reagan Presidential Library today to talk about President Trump’s America First peace through strength common sense agenda and what it means at the Department of War.
