The Reagan Foundation has Requested Trump Make America Great Again, a Trump Campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) Fundraising Committee, to Stop using President Ronald Reagan's Image, to Supporters Donating more than $45. The Request comes after the Committee offered a Commemorative Coin embossed with President Trump and President Reagan's Image to Donors.
RNC Communications Director, Michael Ahrens, said hat the Request came as a Surprise because the Foundation "has not objected to us using President Reagan's likeness before, but said they "will stop emailing this fundraising solicitation as a courtesy."
Reagan Foundation Chief Marketing Officer. Melissa Giller, Confirmed the Request in a Statement. "We own the likeness of President Reagan and they used his image for the coin without our consent. We called the RNC and asked them to cease and desist the use of Pres Reagan on the coin and they agreed," Giller said.
Reagan is among the Most Popular Former U.S. Presidents. A succession of Republican Candidates over the years have sought to Portray themselves as his Successor and heaped Praise on his Legacy. Trump has followed suit, naming Reagan as his Favorite President in a Interview shortly after taking Office in January 2017, but criticizing his Predecessor over his Free-Market Trade Policies.
It's Not the First time Trump has sought Political Benefit from using Reagan's Image, with the President sharing a Photograph of himself and Reagan taken in 1987 and a Fabricated Quote from Reagan praising him in a Tweet last July.
But Members of the Reagan Family have been Scathing in their Criticism of Trump. Ronald Reagan's Son, Ron Reagan, remarked in a January 2018 Interview that his Father would never have Supported him, and Describing him as "a traitorous president who is betraying his country."
In an Interview in February, Reagan's Daughter, Patti Davis, Accused Trump of Endangering U.S. Democracy, and Criticized the GOP for Refusing to take a Stand against him. She said that Trump's Campaign had Distorted the meaning Make America Great Again, its Campaign Slogan coined by Reagan during his Successful Bid for the Presidency in 1980. "I think it's taken on, obviously, a completely different meaning because what it seems to mean now is 'let's make America white again and racist again and small-minded again,'" she said.
The Reagan Foundation's Job is: "to complete President Reagan's unfinished work and to preserve the timeless principles he championed."
Reagan and his Wife, Nancy, handed Control over the Rights to his Image to the Foundation in the 1990s.
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