Ronald Reagan's son says his father would be 'horrified by the Republican party right now'

Ronald Reagan's son has slammed President Trump and said his father would be "horrified by the Republican party right now".

Ron Reagan, 62, made the comments in an interview with CNN on Sunday, where he also took aim at Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, who he said were unfit to serve as Trump's advisors.

"Well, they're certainly entitled to go campaign for their dad," Ron said of the current president's children. "My eldest brother and sister did that, and there's nothing wrong with that. When you cross the line is - I hate to say it here and I don't mean to be blunt - but we've got a bunch of grifters there in the White House. They're treating this as a grift."

He then claimed that the Trumps were "mixing business with pleasure."

"They're using the hotels and the golf clubs to profit off the presidency," he said. "Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have no qualifications whatsoever to be in the position they're in. Zero. Zip. And they're using it to make money, basically."

Ron then said that his father would be "horrified" at the current state of the party he used to lead.

"He would be horrified by the Republican party right now. The spinelessness in the face of this pathological entity in the White House right now would shock him," Ron said.

Ron is pictured below with his sister Patti Davis at his mother's funeral in 2016.

"Donald Trump has done a tremendous amount of damage to this party," he continued. "When I think of my father, I think of words like 'integrity,' 'decency,' 'dignity,' 'honor,' and 'patriotism.' Not nationalism, but patriotism. All of those qualities are in very short supply in this White House, and frankly, the Republican party has been complicit in degrading those values."

However, while Ron acknowledged that his father would be displeased with the Republican party in 2020, he said that its current supporters should look to the future and not to the time of his father.

"I don't think the Republican party or any other party can profit by looking backward. We have to look forwards, whatever party you belong to, you have to look to the future," he said, before adding that the United States is at a "crucial point in history."

"It's going to be a dark road or it's gonna be a more progressive road," he said. "So I don't think going back to the days of Ronald Reagan is the answer for the Republican party, but they don't have much else. They really don't have much else."