Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis slams Trump’s foreign policy in 2nd term: 'We’re hated in the world'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, slammed President Donald Trump’s second term in the Oval Office as she called him out for tarnishing the US’ standing in the world.

Appearing on CNN’s ‘Anderson Cooper 360’, the 72-year-old said on Tuesday, March 11, that her father “would be grieving” seeing the current American political scenario, as reported by The Hill.

She continued, “The America that I grew up in, that we all have known, is one that had alliances and was friends with other countries, and it would go to other countries who were in trouble, who were being tyrannized, or invaded, or, you know, otherwise suffering from famines, for example.”

Patti Davis says America has changed for the worse

Since retaking the White House in January, Trump has gone confrontational with many countries by ensuing a trade war with Canada, Mexico, and China. He also had a very heated meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in February as they met to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Davis told Cooper that these actions of the Republican leader are contrary to what her father taught her - the belief that America is “this force in the world that if another country was in trouble, would cross oceans to help them.”

The author then went on to mention the 1985 song ‘We Are the World’, which was the African famine relief charity single, featuring over 45 of the era's most popular singers and songwriters, during Reagan’s second term.

“That’s the America that we know, and that we have been bonded with, and suddenly that America is no longer that. Suddenly we’re hated in the world,” she stated.

Patti Davis claims ‘strength is forming alliances’ not enemies

Davis then added, “That phrase, 'peace through strength'—I think we have to define what strength is. I don't think bullying is a strength. I don't think being overly aggressive is a strength. Strength is forming alliances.”

This came after the actress wrote an op-ed for The New York Times. 

She said that her father spoke with her the night of his 1981 inauguration and told her that he ran for the office to “make this world a safer, more peaceful place.”

“When he left and the stillness of Lincoln’s bedroom folded around me, with all of its history and stories, I was struck by the fact that he spoke about the world, not just America,” she noted.

Though Davis disagreed many times with Reagan’s policies, she asserted, “I knew he wanted America to be a strong partner in the world, bonding with other countries to defeat tyranny and aggression.”