#ronald reagan

[deadpresidents]

Is DJT the only genuine "modern" style celebrity (i.e. post-"talkies") to become president? Ronnie was a B-lister.

I think people might be forgetting that Donald Trump was a D-list celebrity at best before he had a career renaissance of sorts with "The Apprentice", and even then, he was a two-bit reality show host who stole his catchphrase from Vince McMahon of all fucking people.

Trump had been famous for a long time, but before 2015 he was a joke who would do any and all publicity that he could get. (He was a joke after 2015, too, but a joke who somehow tricked 70 million+ Americans into buying into a dangerous personality cult that has destroyed the nation.) He used to go on anybody's radio show at any time and I know this because one of my best friends has been a longtime talk radio host in various cities and he could get Trump on whenever he wanted for as long as he wanted before Trump ran for President.

Ronald Reagan was certainly never an A-list movie star, but he was a far bigger (and more respected) star in the 1940s and 1950s than Trump was in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Even after Reagan's movie career cooled off he spent nearly a decade as the host of a weekly prime-time national TV show which, at times, was one of the most popular weekly series in the country.

[animentality]

[colbertt]

[charlesoberonn]

And possibly the most important one that explains the rest

Happy July 5th

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

James Shigeta (Flower Drum Song)—sexy in that '60s ratpack kind of way, I literally gasped when he came onscreen in Flower Drum Song for the first time

Ronald Reagan (The Bad Man)—i just want to see him get dunked on repeatedly

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[propaganda photos submitted under the cut.]

[teathattast]

[nando161mando]

[mysharona1987]

[sher-ee]

[amtrak-official]

Why is everything horrible?

Reagan.

[deadpresidents]

"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

[animentality]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[iftadwascool]

[oldshowbiz]

In an editorial published in the Pittsburgh Courier on September 30, 1967, baseball legend Jackie Robinson warned that Ronald Reagan would roll back all the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement, from the Voting Rights Act to Affirmative Action.