Now that’s winning one for “The Gipper” — the late actor and President Ronald Reagan.

The film “Reagan” has surged to the top of the home sales charts following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5.

“Reagan” was listed as #2 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list overall Monday forDVD, Blu-ray and digital downloadsales.

It was listed No. 1 over the weekend, the movie’s publicist said.

The team that created “Reagan” cited similarities between the two Republicangiants and the synergies between Trump’s successfulcampaign and the movie that retells the lifestory of Reagan,a popular two-term president and previously a Hollywood actor.

Reagan earned the nickname the Gipper for his first big role as an actor portraying gravely ill football player George Gipp in the 1940 film classic Knute Rockne, All American. Gipp was in his hospital bed, when he asked coach Knute Rockne to have the team Win just one for the Gipper.

“First and foremost, Reagan believed in America and Americans. I believe Trump feels the same. Reagan was, and Trump is, willing to fight for what they believed was right,” “Reagan” screenwriter Howard Klausner told The Post. Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan in the 2024 film “Reagan.” Courtesy Everett Collection

Asked if the Reagan film will do well with home sales, he said, “I do. I believe people are just consuming the overwhelming majority of their filmed entertainment in the home now.”

Actor Robert Davi, who played Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev in the film and is a staunch Trump backer, said, “The film showed how Reagan was demonized just as Trump was.”

He said he was “elated” by Trump’s victory and was in Palm Beach with the president-elect for the victory celebration. Start your day with all you need to know

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“They were both red, white and blue. The difference is in literary style. Trump is like Hemingway and James Joyce, direct and stream of consciousness, Reagan had a more restrained, poetic style,” Davi said.

The film stars Dennis Quaid as Reagan, Penelope Ann Miller as first lady Nancy Reagan, Jon Voight as a KGB agent and Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman, Reagans first wife. It first hit theaters just before Labor Day.

Mark Joseph, founder and CEO of MJM Entertainment Group, produced “Reagan.” President Ronald Reagan works at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House as he prepares a speech on tax revision on May 24, 1985. AP

But there were complaints of liberal bias after only a few theaters in blue New York City and much of the metro region didnt screen the film.

“Reagan” also faced censorship from Meta, Facebooks parent company, which later admitted to the error of blocking promos for the film.

“Reagan” still reached $30 million in box office receipts, surpassing presidential biopics LBJ, Nixon and Oliver Stones “W” about former two-term GOP PresidentGeorge W. Bush., the publicist said.

Davi said the voters saw through efforts to censor Reagan and cancel Trump.

“New York and California are 98% propaganda wings for the Democratic party and they don’t want anything that hurts their agenda. As we saw with the election and with Elon Music taking over X, [Americans] realize the absolute vacant and subversiveness of the media industrial complex,” the conservative actor said.

“Many people that have seen the film have come up to me and said it was the best film they’ve ever seen. Random people at the supermarket.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 440 points to a record close on Monday after President-elect Donald Trumps pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, laid out his priorities including tax cuts.

In his first interview as Treasury nominee with The Wall Street Journal, Bessent said he will also focus on imposing tariffs, cutting spending and keeping the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency.

The Dow closed up 1% at 44,736.57, while the S&P 500 gained 0.3% and hit an intraday record.

The longtime hedge fund manager said he is focused on making Trumps 2017 tax cuts permanent, as well as eliminating taxes on tips, social security benefits and overtime pay.

Bessent himself is a very prominent investor and has a stellar track record which makes him a great choice, and the markets are responding to the excitement about how they think he will handle fiscal policy and interest rates, Ted Jenkin, co-founder and business consultant at oXYGen Financial, told The Post. 

On Friday, Trump nominated the seasoned hedge fund manager, who has studied economic history for around 40 years, as US Treasury Secretary.

That’s despite protests from Elon Musk, who donated millions to Trump campaign efforts and rallied in swing states on the president-elects behalf. Musk had dogged Bessent as a business-as-usual choice, and threw his support behind Howard Lutnick, who Trump ended up nominating to head the Commerce Department instead.

Investors and Wall Street bigwigs have largely applauded the nomination of Bessent, who worked at George Soros firm before starting his own, because he is seen as the moderate choice, Mahoney Asset Management CEO Ken Mahoney said.

Trump has ruffled feathers with some of his controversial nominations, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the health department, former Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general and former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense.

Disruption is the goal when it comes to ripping DEI out of government, or getting the politics out of the Justice Department, but not when managing our banking system or world financial markets, Kenin Spivak, chief executive at SMI Group, told The Post. Bessent is an experienced, steady, capable expert in all aspects of the department he has been chosen to lead.

Spivak said investors view Bessent as the wise choice and expect him to advise Trump to use restraint when implementing some of his economic policies.

The president-elect has pushed for massive tariffs of 10% on all imports and 60% on goods from China. Economists have warned the outsize tariffs could reheat inflation.

Bessent, meanwhile, had viewed tariffs as a negotiating tool, saying earlier this year that the tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table but rarely discharged. 

[Bessent] talked about gradual tariff changes, which had been a fear and a talking point of Trump adversaries, Mahoney told The Post. This ideology of massaging in tariffs and seeing how things go makes much more sense.

Mahoney said less intense tariffs could help foreign policy which was a mess in every way with the Biden administration by encouraging fair trade practices while still gaining leverage over other countries.

Another one of Bessents popular proposals is what he calls the 3-3-3 rule, inspired by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who revitalized Japans economy with a threefold policy. Bessents three goals are to slash the budget deficit to 3% of gross domestic product by 2028, boost GDP growth by 3% through deregulation and produce an additional 3 million barrels of oil per day, according to the Journal.

We also like to hear his policies around reducing the budget deficit and getting that under control, as we know there is a massive debt and spending problem within the government, Mahoney said. He also wants to increase oil productionso it is possible lower energy costs balance out the possible inflationary effects of tariffs.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink received approval to launch a new feasibility trial using its brain implant and an investigational assistive robotic arm, the brain-chip startup said in a post on X on Monday.

Neuralink is conducting its PRIME study, aimed at evaluating the safety of its wireless brain-computer interface and surgical robot. It is assessing the initial effect of the implant in patients with quadriplegia, a form of paralysis, to control external devices with their thoughts.

The company plans to cross-enroll participants in the feasibility study from the ongoing PRIME trial, it said in a post on social media platform X.

The Food and Drug Administration and Neuralink did not immediately respond to requests for details on the feasibility study.

Last week, the company received approval from regulator Health Canada to launch a trial of its device in Canada. Canadian neurosurgeons in partnership with the startup have regulatory approval to recruit six patients with paralysis in the study.

In the United States, Neuralink has already implanted the device in two patients. It has allowed the first patient to play video games, browse the internet, post on social media and move a cursor on his laptop.

The company has said its device is working well in the second trial patient, who has been using it to play video games and learn how to design 3D objects.