President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.

William McKinley was at best a mediocre president, but he had attributes that appeal to Trump.

Churchill once implied that history would be kind to him because “I propose to write that history myself.” As we know from his paroxysms on Truth Social, Donald Trump is barely capable of writing a single coherent sentence.

McKinley, 123 years after his assassination, often ranks as an above average but not spectacular president in presidential rankings. For Trump, McKinley ranks high because of his love of tariffs.

McKinley, who was inaugurated in 1897, presided over the negotiations that created the Panama Canal. He loved tariffs, both as a way to fund the government and to protect domestic industry. And he courted, and was courted by, robber barons of the Gilded Age.

In his inaugural speech, Trump praised ‘great president’ William McKinley, remembered for his love of tariffs and assassinated in 1901

“We didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.” He also referenced US President William McKinley, who was in office from 1897 to his assassination in 1901, for making the US “very rich through tariffs”. After saying ...

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