The historical fact spread online in October 2025 as Republicans claimed Democrats shut down the government over health care for "illegal aliens."

Trump attacked the ad on Truth Social Friday posting: “CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!! They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs, when actually he LOVED TARIFFS FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS NATIONAL SECURITY.″

Trump, notes Digby Parton, knows of the importance of Reagan's appeal to his base — or at least, his former appeal. "Trump is well aware of how Reagan was long held up as something of a god among Republicans,

The last Boeing 707 to serve as a primary Air Force One — the aircraft that once flew President Ronald Reagan, plus six other American presidents — now sits under a striking glass pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley ...

President Donald Trump said former President Ronald Reagan loved tariffs. But he couldn't be more wrong about that.

An ad quoting Ronald Reagan's opposition to tariffs and funded by the Canadian province of Ontario upset President Donald Trump who responded with more tariffs.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that he had apologised to United States President Donald Trump over a television advertisement that aired in the US featuring former president Ronald Reagan criticising tariffs.

As for Trump, I don’t think there is a one principle, one core belief, one basis around which trade policy is set, unlike Reagan'