President Trump admires one of his long-forgotten predecessors. He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley, whose term bridged the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Trump evidently sees him as a kindred spirit. That is passing strange, since in most regards McKinley was the quintessential anti-Trump.

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

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.

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.

Hardly a day goes by during the frenetic first fortnight of his presidency that Donald Trump does not lavish praise on his late-19th century predecessor William McKinley, a.k.a. the "Napoleon of Protection.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump came out swinging in a combative inaugural speech in which he affirmed plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and regain control of the Panama Canal.

Trump's a fan of President William McKinley ... his proposed acquisition of Greenland and vows to take back the Panama Canal. McKinley was reelected in 1900, but then assassinated by an anarchist ...

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William McKinley, the 25th president ... and through talent,” and for paving America’s way to building the Panama Canal. “We’re taking it back,” Mr. Trump declared, after an ode to ...

The new US president has vowed to ‘take back’ the waterway, but there’s much more to this modern wonder than meets the eye

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After completion in 1914, the canal helped turn the United States into an economic juggernaut.

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