Ronald Reagans Daughter: Trump GOP Bears No Resemblance To My Fathers

Patti Davis , the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan , said her father had he lived to witness Donald Trump s presidency would be horrified by the state of the U.S. and the Republican Party today.

I think he would be horrified I think he would be heartbroken because he loved this country a lot and he believed in this country, she said of her dad during an appearance on Through Her Eyes, a weekly Yahoo News show hosted by human rights activist Zainab Salbi.

Davis, an author and a former actress , pulled no punches in her assessment of the Trump presidency. She said he was endangering democracy and was dividing the nation.

Everything he says is divisive. Look at his rallies, she told Salbi.

The 66-year-old Davis said Trump talks like an autocrat, befriends autocrats and supports autocrats.

He wants to be one, she declared.

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Ronald Reagans daughter: I think he would be horrified, I think he would heartbroken by state of the country under Trump https://t.co/w1d78BlShf pic.twitter.com/oEhVt0goeF
Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 19, 2019

Davis, who has long been a vocal critic of Trumps , also lambasted the current state of the GOP saying theres no resemblance to the Republican Party of my fathers time.

How about the crickets when Trump keeps assaulting the Constitution? she said. I mean, they dont say anything. They dont stand up to him.

What I did on Sunday:

Morning meditation
Worked out
Walked Gracie
Combed Minnie
Gardened
Started my next book

What Donald Trump did on Sunday:

Fired off 29 tweets attacking Saturday Night Live, John McCain,... https://t.co/mLzrW0UAhN

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What I did on Sunday:

Morning meditation
Worked out
Walked Gracie
Combed Minnie
Gardened
Started my next book

What Donald Trump did on Sunday:

Fired off 29 tweets attacking Saturday Night Live, John McCain,... https://t.co/mLzrW0UAhN
patti davis (@patti_davis) March 18, 2019

Davis is no stranger to the political fray. As an antinuclear advocate in the 1980s , she spoke publicly against some of her fathers policies when he was president.

She told Salbi that she reconciled with her father, who died in 2004 after a protracted battle with Alzheimers, toward the end of his life.

I feel that I did get a chance to apologize to my father, in this sort of mysterious realm that Alzheimers puts you in, Davis said.

In a tender 2018 Washington Post op-ed remembering him, Davis wrote that she missed the dignity that her father brought to the task of leading this country, the deep respect he had for our democracy.

Her dad, she said at the time , would be appalled and heartbroken at a Congress that refuses to stand up to a president who not only seems ignorant of the Constitution but who also attempts at every turn to dismantle and mock our system of checks and balances.

I think he would remind us that America began as a dream in the minds of men who dared to envision a land that was free of tyranny, with a government designed and structured so that no one branch of government could dominate the others, she wrote.