With heavy tariffs and overtures to Russia, Trump embraces a worldview starkly different from that of the conservative icon.

The late Republican president’s foreign policy mantra has become the talking point of the Trump administration. But even Trump supporters are struggling to figure out what it means now.

More than four decades apart, the two Republicans campaigned on similar anti-big government themes. Once in office, they approached the task in strikingly different ways.

Once upon a time, Donald Trump endeared himself to millions of working-class voters by telling them he, unlike the rest of the Republican Party, would do “everything within my power not to touch Social Security,

Michael Reagan surprises with support for Trump's tariffs, shifting from past criticism. Learn why he’s changed his stance on trade policy.

▪ Elon Musk. “Trump’s approach is to use a nameless, faceless bureaucracy of 20-somethings and Elon Musk to dismantle a nameless, faceless bureaucracy,” said Christian Grose, academic director at the USC Schwarzenegger Institute.

President Donald Trump wants to make Ronald Reagan’s long-ridiculed Star Wars missile defense program from the 1980s a reality. And he insists that new tech can finally make it happen.

Former Trump deputy national security advisor KT McFarland compares President Donald Trump's foreign policy to former President Ronald Reagan's on 'The Story.'