IDEAS Trump loves McKinley. If only they were more alike. From Denali to the Panama Canal, our current president is making bizarre connections to the 25th president.

Trump claimed the United States “lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.” ... William McKinley was at best a mediocre president, but he had attributes that appeal to Trump.

The Panama Canal, truly an outgrowth of McKinley’s initiatives, is a different and more complex case. Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed that the 51-mile-long link connecting the Atlantic and ...

Trump's a fan of President William McKinley, ... He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of ...

This echoes Trump's calls to expand the United States territory with his proposed acquisition of Greenland and vows to take back the Panama Canal. McKinley was reelected in 1900, but then ...

But in the dawning moments of his second term, Trump claimed the Panama Canal and Greenland and coveted Canada as the 51st state. ... The president who decided that struggle was William McKinley.

From the Panama Canal to Mount McKinley, here are 4 new things Trump said in Phoenix. Stephanie Murray. ... Trump appears to have a soft spot for late President William McKinley, ...

Which bring us to this month, in which Trump has expressed his desire to take the canal, which the U.S. controlled until 1977, as well as Greenland, a Danish territory that the U.S. has never laid ...

KHALID: Roosevelt became president when McKinley was assassinated in 1901, and he was the driving force behind the construction of the Panama Canal that Trump has threatened to reclaim. Asma ...

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. Trump ...

Trump's a fan of President William McKinley, giving the ... Trump's calls to expand the United States territory with his proposed acquisition of Greenland and vows to take back the Panama Canal.