Some of President Donald Trump’s supporters like to compare him to another two-term Republican president — Ronald Reagan.

I’ve never seen that, I suppose you could find some common ground in their philosophies, but their personalities — at least as they appeared in public or on television — couldn’t be more different.

Reagan could deliver a political jab at 1980s Democrats, who didn’t care for his policies any more than today’s Dems care for anything the Trump administration has done, with charm and a smile.

I don’t remember Reagan suggesting that his political opponents were guilty of sedition or treason, nor reminding everyone that such trespasses came with the harshest penalty — death.

Similarly, Reagan never blamed the untimely deaths of critics on RDS — Reagan Derangement Syndrome.

But Trump did just that in a recent — and ridiculous — social-media post shortly after the murders of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly by their adult son, Nick.

Reagan never lashed out at a reporter by telling her, “Quiet, piggy.” And as much as left-leaning media types loved to criticize Reagan, I’ve yet to come across a YouTube video of him singling out a reporter and saying, “You work for CNN. You’re fake news.”

Reagan could score political points with a twinkle in his eye, as he did with this joke during a 1986 speech:

“… This reminds me of a story maybe some of you’ve heard about that kid that was outside a Democratic fundraising dinner. And as those in attendance filed out, he started hawking them, and he told us he had puppies. He held them up and gave the pitch, ‘Democrat puppies for sale. Anybody want a Democrat puppy?’

“Two weeks later, the Republicans happened to hold a fundraiser at the same restaurant. And there was the same kid with the same batch of puppies. Only this time, his pitch was changed, ‘Republican puppies for sale. Anyone want to buy a Republican puppy?”

“A reporter noticed this, that had been at the other meeting, and he said, ‘Wait a minute, kid. How come this same bunch of puppies were Democratic puppies 2 weeks ago, and now they’re Republicans?’

“The kid wasn’t stopped for a minute. He said, ‘Now they’ve got their eyes open.'”

Reagan’s greatest hits weren’t simply comedy bits to be followed by a rimshot.

In 1987, he was giving a speech when a balloon popped somewhere off-camera, mimicking the sound of gunfire. Without skipping a beat, The Gipper said, “Missed me,” a reference to the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.

Another aspect of Reagan’s persona that stands out even today was his ability and willingness to address and comfort Americans in times of trouble, be it after the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut or the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion.

On June 12, 1987, during a speech at the Brandenburg Gate of the Berlin Wall, Reagan delivered his most often-quoted line: “Mr. Gorbachov, tear down this wall!”

No matter what you think of Reagan’s policies and his two terms, there is no doubt that he made us feel good about America and being Americans and played a significant role in the eventual demise of the Soviet Union.

You can rewatch those speeches — along with his 1989 farewell address in which he referred to the United States as a “shining city on a hill” — and added that he viewed America as a “tall, proud city … windswept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony.”

I know it was a different time and despite their political differences Democrats and Republicans could actually find common ground occasionally back then. Clearly, working across the aisle — as politicians like to call it — is no longer the way things are done in Washington.

Trump has plenty to do with that. Some supporters will justify it by saying that Trump was impeached twice during his first term and then had multiple criminal cases and lawsuits levied against him from the moment it became clear that he intended to run for office again in 2024 after losing to Joe Biden in 2020. They also will point to two assassination attempts against Trump leading up to the 2024 election as justification for Trump’s rhetoric against his political enemies.

It’s true that Rob Reiner was a frequent and vocal Trump critic.

But the president’s response on Truth Social has been justifiably criticized, even by some influential Republicans.

Per The Associated Press, Trump, in a post on his social media network, said Reiner and his wife were killed “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”

He said Reiner “was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness.”

Let’s pretend social media was a thing in the 1980s. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan using it to dance on the grave of a fellow American who had the misfortune of being stabbed to death in his own home — and allegedly by his own son?

No, TDS didn’t kill Rob and Michele Reiner. But many Americans might be at risk of dying of shock if the current POTUS showed an ounce of the grace, humanity and self-deprecating humor that seemed to come so easily to Reagan.

Hint: It hasn’t happened yet, so don’t hold your breath.

Ed Puskas is editor of the Tribune Chronicle and Vindicator. Write him at epuskas@tribtoday.com or call 330-841-1786.