William McKinley was a largely forgotten American ... Theodore Roosevelt, his vice president and successor, pretty much left tariffs policy in place. But tariffs slowly became less significant.

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...

In all of this, Trump is explicitly channeling William McKinley, another president who wielded tariffs with unabashed enthusiasm. Whether he’s mentioning McKinley by name — or restoring his ...