William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs.
President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.
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Donald Trump praises the 19th-century “reciprocal” tariff policy of former president William McKinley. But that strategy damaged the US economy – and the Republican Party.
Trump is right that McKinley played a critical role in American history, but not for the reasons Trump articulates.
President Trump likes to remember William McKinley's tariffs as a triumph. The reality is far more complicated.
When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to open colonial rule and the conquest and annexation of territories.
There is an echo of McKinley’s spirit and Roosevelt’s strategy in the early Trump White House. For a president who said that the success of his administration would be measured by “the wars we never get into,” there is an ominous undertone in his reverential invocations of presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
Trump’s lack of knowledge of history has allowed him to frequently praise William McKinley, author of what came to be known as the “McKinley tariffs,” even stating that Americans were richest at the time of McKinley’s presidency. He is wrong on a number of levels.
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Chalkbeat on MSNTennessee teachers should follow Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ order, GOP leader saysA GOP leader filed a resolution encouraging Tennessee teachers to use the names Gulf of America and Mount McKinley when speaking with their students about map locations rebranded by President Donald Trump.
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