August 31, 2025 — US president William McKinley died in 1901 of gunshot wounds that modern medicine could easily have handled. Without x-rays, his doctors couldn’t find the second bullet, and without antibiotics, they couldn’t fight the sepsis that killed him.
When Donald Trump wants to Make America Great Again [MAGA], his idea of when America was great is evidently the McKinley Administration of 1897-1901. Why? Trump in February 2025: “He was a strong believer in tariffs, and we were actually probably wealthiest of any time, relatively speaking, at any point in the history of our country.” The McKinley Tariff dated from 1890, when he was a Senator. During his presidency, he himself turned against tariffs.)