President Trump is responding to former President Ronald Reagan’s presidential foundation for asking his campaign and the Republican National Committee to stop using his image to raise funds.
In a tweet posted Sunday afternoon, the commander-in-chief called Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the Reagan Foundation board and editor and CEO of The Washington Post, after the foundation told numerous media of communication that had asked the RNC to stop using the name and image of the former president to raise money.
“So the Washington Post runs the Reagan Foundation, and RINO Paul Ryan is on the Fox Board, which has been terrible. We’ll win anyway, even with the fake @FoxNews suppression polls (which have been very wrong for 5 years)! Trump wrote on Twitter.
On Saturday, the Reagan Foundation’s chief marketing officer, Melissa Giller, told a Washington Post columnist that the foundation called the RNC last week to make the request.
The request was made to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint campaign and party fundraising effort, and came in response to an email offering two commemorative coins, one featuring the face of President Trump and the other with President Reagan’s face etched, to anyone who donates at least $ 45.
The email, obtained by the newspaper, was “signed” by President Trump.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said the snub said: “It should come as no surprise that the editor and CEO of the Washington Post wants to interfere with President Trump’s reelection campaign. As Republicans, we all honor Ronald Reagan’s contribution to this country and to our party. “
A spokesman for the Reagan Foundation did not respond to The Post’s request for comment. A representative of the Republican National Committee also could not be immediately reached.
RNC Communications Director Michael Ahrens was surprised by the foundation’s objection when contacted by The Post, as “they had recently taken in the Trump family to raise money for their organization and have not objected to us using the image of President Reagan earlier. “
While arguing that their use of Reagan for commemorative coins was “appropriate,” Ahrens said they would stop “e-mailing this fundraising request as a courtesy.”
“President Reagan was a proud Republican and supporter of a party that has continued his fight for conservative principles of economic opportunity and limited government. Thousands of Republicans use his image every year and gather across the country for ‘Reagan Dinners,’ and his library regularly hosts debates for our presidential candidates, ”he continued.
The snub is not the first time that the 45th President was snubbed by a group or individual linked to the 40th President.
In June 2018, Reagan’s daughter Patty Davis said she believed her father would have been “appalled” by the Trump presidency.
In a letter written on the anniversary of his father’s death on June 5, 2004, Davis wrote that Reagan would have been “rather horrified where we have come from.”
“He would be appalled and heartbroken,” he wrote, “in a Congress that refuses to confront a president who not only seems to ignore the Constitution, but also tries at every step to dismantle and mock our system of checks and balances.” “
Davis did not mention Trump by name.
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