Ronald Prescott "Ron" Reagan (born May 20, 1958) is an American political commentator and broadcaster.

Ron Reagan undertook a different philosophical and political path from his father at an early age.

The elder Reagan commented in his White House diary on this day that Ron's performance was "darn good" and reminiscent of Fred Astaire.

[10] He has served on the board of the Creative Coalition, an organization founded in 1989 by a group that included Susan Sarandon and Christopher Reeve, to politically mobilize entertainers and artists, generally for First Amendment rights and causes such as arts advocacy and public education.

[1] In July 2004, Reagan spoke at the Democratic National Convention about his support for lifting Bush's restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, from which he expected a cure or new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, of which his father had recently died.

"There are those who would stand in the way of this remarkable future, who would deny the federal funding so crucial to basic research.

[18] In September 2004, he told the Sunday Herald newspaper that the George W. Bush Administration had "cheated to get into the White House.

I think they feel that anything they can do to prevail — lie, cheat, whatever — is justified by their revolutionary aims" and that he feared Bush was "hijacking" his father's reputation.

Reagan endorsed Senator Barack Obama of Illinois for president in the 2008 presidential election.

[22] In early 2020, Reagan stated his father would have opposed Donald Trump, remarking to The Daily Beast that "The Republican Party at this point, for a whole host of reasons to do with Donald Trump, is an entirely illegitimate political party just made up of a bunch of sycophantic traitors mouthing Kremlin propaganda to defend this squalid little man who is occupying the White House," Reagan said.

He would have been embarrassed and ashamed that a president of the United States was as incompetent and traitorous as the man occupying the White House now.

[23] Reagan stated in a 2004 New York Times interview that he did not claim any religion, but that his sympathies were with Buddhism and his wife was a Buddhist.

[25] In a June 23, 2004, interview on CNN show Larry King Live, while discussing reasons why he would not run for political office, Ron Reagan stated "I'm an atheist [...] I can't be elected to anything because polls all say that people won't elect an atheist.

[27] In May 2014, Reagan appeared in an advertisement for broadcast on Comedy Central for the Freedom From Religion Foundation in which he declared himself "an unabashed atheist" who is "not afraid of burning in Hell.

"[28] The ad received renewed attention in October 2019 when it aired on CNN during the fourth 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate.