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.

By the beginning of the 20th century, the Republican leader had sharply increased tariffs and pursued an expansionist foreign policy.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks about his ambitions for buying Greenland from Denmark and retaking the Panama Canal despite a treaty.

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 ...

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.

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.

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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Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.

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