‘To Be Brutally Honest—’ CNN’s Chris Wallace Digs In With Trump Fan Dennis Quaid About Meg Ryan Breakup

CNN anchor Chris Wallace got personal with actor Dennis Quaid about his breakup with rom-com legend Meg Ryan, asking a “brutally honest” question about the former couple.

Wallace interviewed Quaid for this week’s edition of his Max series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on a variety of topics, including his new film Reagan — in which Quaid portrays the titular character.

Wallace wound up the episode by asking Quaid about the divorce of the “golden couple” — and whether her much greater stardom compared to his played a role:

WALLACE: You were famously married to Meg Ryan for a decade and you guys were billed as Holly- as one of Hollywood’s golden couples. And I wonder did all of that attention put strain on the marriage? And in addition, to be brutally honest, how about the fact that she was at that particular point more famous than you were?

QUAID: How about, how about that? It’s when I met Meg, I was here as far as career thing and she was here and then it just went like that and which, you know, I try to be a big person and tell, tell myself that didn’t bother me but, you know, every people are human and, uh, you know, she was ascending as, as I was — went into rehab and Meg is really such a great, sweet person and really talented and deserved all her success. But, uh, I don’t regret, is that anything about my marriage, uh, to Meg and, you know, we, uh, we got Jack Quaid out of it who is really going on to maybe, uh, I think, uh, eclipse up both of us.

WALLACE: But let’s hope so. That’s all you can wish for as a parent, your kids do better than you.

In another exchange, Wallace confronted Quaid — who idolizes Reagan — over his endorsement of Trump by highlighting the differences between the two former presidents:

WALLACE: You have a new movie out called Reagan that focuses on his effort to win the Cold War. You’ve come out for Donald Trump in this election. And I’m a little curious about that because a lot of people say that there would be no room for Ronald Reagan in Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

QUAID: Well, I really don’t agree with that in a sense. Yes, Ronald Reagan was a man of his times. And Trump is also, he’s a man of his times. But I do feel that the principles of Ronald Reagan and the principles of Donald J. Trump are very similar.

WALLACE: Well, let me pick up on that though because Reagan confronted the Russians. He talked, and you in the movie talk, about an evil empire. Trump doesn’t do that. Reagan supported free trade. Trump imposes tariffs. And Reagan’s 11th commandment was thou shall not speak ill of another Republican. I gotta say, I think Reagan would have been appalled by Trump’s behavior.

QUAID: Well, I do think you see a Trump 2.0 here as far as the Republican party and him getting along that this time around. Ronald Reagan was America first I would contend. The circumstances around that, the issues around the election of 1980 are very similar today. You had high inflation, gas prices, what they were, we had hostages in the Middle East. We were told that we were a nation in decline and felt that malaise that Jimmy Carter himself said that and very similar issues to what is going on today.

Watch above via Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.