My crew wasn’t picking up what Reagan’s beige sermon was putting down, so I dusted off the grey matter and spit out a version with updated vocabs. From ‘talking down to voters’ to ‘talking real with people who pay taxes.’ It’s a re-up, not a rerun.

“Yo, when some suit starts talkin bout ‘let’s hit foreign imports with tariffs,’ they act like they’re defendin the grind, but it’s all optics and slogans. Looks good for the cameras, makes the crowd clap, but let’s be real — it’s all short-term smoke.

Cuz when you wall off the game, everyone pays more to play. Countries clap back, trade wars start flyin, and suddenly the same folks spittin bout protectin jobs are out here telling why everyone’s gettin laid off.

Then the whole system starts coughin up dust. Markets collapse, factories ghost town, and regular people gotta eat the fallout while the suits blame foreigners and fly private to the next photo op.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world’s startin to catch on – prosperity don’t come from fearin competition, it comes from open lanes and fair play. But nah, politicians still act like you can fix inflation with flag wavin and tall tales.

You wanna build the country? Stop playin dress up patriot and start buildin the infrastructure. Cuz nobody ever got rich off a trade war – except maybe the lobbyists writing your speeches.”

So in the end, two people I can’t vibe with — Ford and Reagan — actually dropped some real talk for a hot sec in their careers, cuz the truth’s mad obvious to anyone with half a brain. And yeah, we all know there’s a pic of Trump under ‘wasteman’ in the dictionary, but the rot in America hits different when the supposed protectors of Reagan’s words are out here parroting lies and misinformation instead of holding it down for his legacy.