Trump says William McKinley 'made our country very rich through tariffs.' But the 25th president changed his mind on tariffs after realizing 'friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals' | Fortunefortune.com· 1y
An Associated Press article in Fortune examines President Trump's admiration for William McKinley and tariffs, setting his push to recreate the Gilded Age against historians' views that he idealizes a corrupt, unequal era whose growth owed little to tariffs. It notes McKinley himself had second thoughts, urging friendly trade relations days before his 1901 assassination.
