- Reagan star Dennis Quaid was interviewed by CNN’s Chris Wallace
- Wallace challenged Quaid on his support for former President Donald Trump
In an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, Reagan star Dennis Quaid asked what the 1980s president and former President Donald Trump have in common.
Wallace, a former Fox News Sunday host, said he believed Reagan, an iconic Republican president, would not be welcome in the modern Republican Party, dominated by the MAGA movement.
In a clip Obtained by Mediaite For the Max series, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, Quaid explains that Trump and Reagan are dealing with “very similar issues to what’s happening today.”
“The issues surrounding the 1980 election are very similar today,” said Quaid, who endorsed Trump in May. “There was high inflation, gas prices, etc., we had hostages in the Middle East.”
“We were told we were a nation in decline,” he continued. “And we felt that discomfort because Jimmy Carter himself said that.”
In an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, Dennis Quaid (pictured) was asked what the 1980s president and former President Donald Trump have in common. The actor responded that they were dealing with “very similar issues.”
Quaid (right) appeared for an interview with Chris Wallace (left) for an episode of his Max Who show Talking to Chris Wallace, where Wallace pointed out significant differences between Republican President Ronald Reagan and former President Donald Trump.
At the beginning of the clip, Wallace tells Quaid he’s “a little curious” about his support for Trump “because a lot of people say there would be no place for Ronald Reagan in Donald Trump’s Republican Party.”
“Well, in a sense I don’t agree with that,” Quaid replied. “Yes, Ronald Reagan was a man of his time. And Trump is also a man of his time. But I think Ronald Reagan’s principles and Donald J. Trump’s principles are very similar.”
Wallace then demonstrated the key ways in which the two Republicans are different.
“Well, let me get back to it, because Reagan stood up to the Russians,” the former Fox News Sunday host said. “He talked about, and you talk about in the movie, an evil empire.”
“Trump doesn’t do that,” Wallace said.
On the campaign trail, Trump boasted of getting along well with Russian President Vladimir Putin and suggested he might end the war in Ukraine before taking office.
He has not detailed how that would be done.
“Reagan supported free trade. Trump imposes tariffs,” Wallace continued.
“And Reagan’s 11th commandment was not to speak ill of another Republican,” the veteran host continued. “I have to say that I think Reagan would have been horrified by Trump’s behavior.”
Quaid responded by saying that “Trump 2.0” was kinder to his fellow Republicans.
Earlier this week, it was Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who attacked former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and Jimmy McCain, son of the late Sen. John McCain, after they publicly endorsed the Republican nominee’s rival, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
Vance called Cheney, the daughter of Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, and McCain “rejects of the Republican Party.”