Trump’s tariff icon: Why he’s praising 25th President William McKinley

Trump’s tariff icon: Why he’s praising 25th President William McKinley


Former President Donald Trump is digging deep into the history books for guidance on tariffs, which have become one of his favorite topics on the campaign trail.

Trump says tariff is his favorite word in the dictionary, and he regularly praises a man he calls “the tariff king,” 25th President William McKinley.

“[McKinley’s] language was really beautiful,” Trump said on Joe Rogan’s podcast. “’We will not allow the enemy to come in and take our jobs and take our factories and take our workers and take our families unless they pay a big price. And the big price is tariffs.’ And he’d speak like that. But he was right.”

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But whether McKinley was right, and if his approach to tariffs can be emulated in the

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