To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs.

Trump's declarative re-mounting of McKinley begins not with the 25th president's performance as "Tariff Man," but rather with ...

Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller swears-in William McKinley as president as President Grover Cleveland watches on March 4, 1897. (Library of Congress via AP) When most presidents cite illustrious ...

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

At first glance, Donald Trump and William McKinley of Ohio would ... Rutherford Hayes, and Grover Cleveland. (Though McKinley did receive a ranking of No. 11 in a 1982 Chicago Tribune poll ...

Trump has heaped praise on William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, born in Niles in Trumbull County and ...

As it was, Cleveland’s handling of the dispute was already too confrontational for the tastes of many of his contemporary anti-imperialists. As Nichols explains: William James and Carl Schurz ...

No wonder Trump compares himself to William McKinley. But he might turn out to be Grover Cleveland instead. John Kenneth White (johnkennethwhite.com) is a professor emeritus at The Catholic ...

In his 2025 inaugural address, Donald Trump compared himself to former President William McKinley boasting that he ... But still, a more apt comparison might be with Grover Cleveland. Like Trump, ...