Though he recently professed his admiration for Reagan on Hannity, it looks like Donald Trump once cited Reagan as an example of someone who could “con people” but couldn’t “deliver the goods” in his 1987 book The Art of the Deal:

He [Reagan] is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.

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