Conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza said the Singapore summit revealed the "stunning" contrasts between the leadership styles of President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama.
His comments came during a Tuesday interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
"What a stunning contrast between Obama's so-called leading from behind and the way that Trump kind of jumps into the forefront, takes things by the horns and, in a sense, bends them to his will," he said.
D'Souza, a recent recipient of a presidential pardon, compared Trump's talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with the breakthrough President Ronald Reagan had with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev.
"We saw it with Reagan and Gorbachev," he said. "Seeing Trump and Kim reminded me of that.
"It takes an element of luck to present these historical opportunities. "It also takes leadership to step to step to the front and know what to do with them.
"If we think about Reagan it was the same thing. Reagan began with a massive military buildup, announced a strategic defense initiative – all aimed at provoking the Soviet Union and inviting it to an arms race he believed they couldn't win.
"In a second term, Reagan in a sense pivoted and developed this incredible relationship with Gorbachev."
D'Souza, who will soon debut his new film that compares Trump to Abraham Lincoln, served eight months in a halfway house for a 2014 conviction on federal campaign law violations. Trump pardoned D'Souza two weeks ago.
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