The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill McKinley’s Gilded Age tariff disaster should give Trump pause by James Delmont, opinion contributor - 06/10/25 3:00 ...

The National Garden of American Heroes, an idea Trump first proposed in 2020, is supposed to open at an unnamed location in ...

Trump praised McKinley in his inaugural speech to a second term, claiming that McKinley “made our nation very rich through tariffs.” Trump also restored the historic name Mount McKinley to the ...

Trump is especially fond of the president who best exemplified the high tariff protectionism of that period — Republican William McKinley, a longtime member of Congress, sent to the White House by ...

Opinion - McKinley’s Gilded Age tariff disaster should give Trump pause James Delmont, opinion contributor 10 June 2025, 12:00 pm GMT-7 · 4 min read ...

For McKinley, it happened at age 34, upon entering Congress on advice from then-President Rutherford Hayes, who suggested he make one issue the signature cause in his political career.

Trump is especially fond of the president who best exemplified the high tariff protectionism of that period — Republican William McKinley, a longtime member of Congress, sent to the White House by ...

William McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so ...

Beneath his cowboy hat, he smuggled two ideas that were anathema to movement conservatives, neoliberalism and neoconservativism, into the heart of Republican ...