Here's the key to Trump's foreign policy: What would McKinley do?
William McKinley's combination of high tariffs and overseas imperialism was disastrous — but not to Donald Trump ...
Do tariffs raise inflation?
President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent," said Mr Trump in his inaugural address.
Baptist News Global3dOpinion
The dirty chess game that motivates Trump’s yo-yo tariffs
In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs. We had a president, you ...
Foreign Affairs4dOpinion
Misunderstanding McKinley
President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the last ...
East Idaho News4d
How a pro-tariff president impacted America’s economy more than 100 years ago
It was Nov. 3, 1896, and the former Ohio Governor was on his way to becoming America’s 25th president. The 53-year-old ...
Connecticut Public5d
What the history of the McKinley era, tariffs, and the Gilded Age can teach us about the present
This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we look at the life and legacy of President McKinley, and why President Trump is drawn ...
BusinessMirror6d
Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs; it’s a great time for the rich but not for the many
WASHINGTON—In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers ...
The New Yorker6dOpinion
Even Donald Trump’s Historical Role Model Had Second Thoughts About Tariffs
It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...