If all the past pics of Trump are to be taken at face value, he was pals with the Clintons (Weren’t they at Trump’s wedding?), Sharpton, Jesse Jackson (Whatever happened to him?), Schumer, Pelosi, numerous Hollywood types, etc. In short enough of that type to make me very wary of him in the run up to 2016. I am sure 90% of these “friends” were just after a check from him. Still, you know something of someone by their associates at least that’s what my parents always told me. Because of the way he governed 2016-2020 (He out-Reaganed Reagan!) he performed as much as he could the actions the country needed and got the needed results. I don’t do personality cults! I am enthusiastically for him in 2024.
Many of those photos are just the getting posed photos of them standing next to each other but it seems that he and JFK Jr. were at the game together and friends, I think, that is the impression I got from Snopes.
I think you are underestimating the vast and enduring changes Reagan brought to America and the world, and Reagan did it before talk radio, before Fox, before we even knew that Republicans could have a Congressional majority, and before the internet, and before there was any real conservative awareness or language among the population, he did it pretty much alone in a sea of liberalism and liberal mass communication and all of one point of view.
In 1980 America practically no one would speak up as a conservative or admit to being a Christian at cocktail parties and at the water cooler, no one among the general public of the middle and upper middle class.
They rolled out Jesse at the DNC. He looked close to death. Wheelchair and all.