You are a very poor war gamer, it would appear.
Remember, Reagan was constantly called, by that same media, “A cowboy who has his finger on the nuclear trigger.”
Alarmist responses from hard left Liberal media sources should be a given, when planning policies, strategies, and tactics.
Why can’t you understand this, with your apparent senior years, under your belt?
Yippee Kay-Yay Mother........!
Reagan would have turned it into some sort of gentle poke about buying on credit or something like that. Subtle, yet everyone would get the point. But he was one of the greatest politicians (and Presidents) of all time. Trump, not so much. Terminal diarrhea of the mouth.