[Buckeye McFrog]

Trump donated to Jimmy Carter against Reagan!!

Reagan was a New Deal Democrat at one point.

[Finny]

Reagan also had served a solid apprenticeship to politics and statesmanship before running for president.

Trump has only ever been a businessman and a showman; he now is switching careers to politician and statesman with ZERO job experience in that field, yet aspires to get the top political job in the U.S. and arguably the world.

[sparklite2]

Here's something I came across today ....

Donald Trump fit right into Ronald Reagan's era of governmental deregulation, entrepreneurial deification, and take-charge businessmen.  In 1986 Trump would upstage New York City's infamously elephantine bureaucracy by rebuilding Central Park's Wollman ice skating rink.  After six years of delays, and over $12 million wasted, the city had announced the rink would be ready in eighteen months.  Trump stepped in and the rink was finished in four months, $750,000 under budget.

True, many mocked Trump's repeated "mystery news conferences, held for no apparent reason."  Still it was hard not to salute what the New York Times called "one of the bolder feats of civic bravado  tried in New York in recent years."

Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's
Princeton University Press, Oct 24, 2013
page 133