Donald Trump’s first term as president tested the US’s political boundaries, but his second term has demolished them.

Using tariffs to balance trade is a falsely founded idea. The US' trade deficit with China has declined since 2018, but its ...

When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to ...

“We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley ... Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China as a way to boost domestic manufacturing, raise ...

President Donald Trump has brought a historical figure to the forefront in recent months: William McKinley ... and a 10% tariff on imports from China. Earlier this month, he also imposed a ...

He’s imposed hefty duties on China, threatened Canada and Mexico ... In all of this, Trump is explicitly channeling William McKinley, another president who wielded tariffs with unabashed enthusiasm.

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

Nearly a decade after Donald Trump descended a golden escalator into the center of US politics, we may finally have an answer to when he thinks America was great: 1897, the year William McKinley ...

For imports from China, an extra 10 percent tariff was ... Trump likes to liken himself to the 25th US President William McKinley, who imposed high tariffs to protect domestic industry and took ...

Of course, Trump’s trade policy is so muddled that this observation isn’t very compelling. Economists on the left and right ...

Trump’s lack of knowledge of history has allowed him to frequently praise William McKinley, author of what came to be known ...