Patti Davis - the writer and daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan - says his campaign catchphrase 'Let's Make America Great Again' has taken on a different meaning under the Trump administration.
Washington - During a lengthy interview for the Yahoo News show "Through Her Eyes," host Zainab Salbi asked Patti Davis - the writer and daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan - what her father would think about democracy during the era of Donald Trump.
"I think it's taken on, obviously, a completely different meaning," Davis said of the saying. "What it seems to mean now is let's make America white again and racist again and small-minded again." In one of the interview's most incendiary moments, Salbi referenced a post Davis wrote on her website in summer 2016, just months before Trump won the election. Watching Trump's fans chant "Lock her up!" in reference to Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, left Davis thinking about a quote from the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu: "You can do whatever you want if you keep the people frightened enough.
Trump has compared his own policies to those of Reagan, falsely claiming on Twitter that the 40th president tried to build a wall on the border with Mexico during his administration. In fact, Reagan signed landmark immigration legislation into law that granted citizenship to 3 million undocumented immigrants.
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