Donald Trump loves some things more than talking about his intimacy for tariff, but it is not new: he has been saying the same thing for decades.
“For me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘Tariff’,” Trump repeatedly said on the campaign mark for the 2024 election.
He has since joined that this is now his fourth favorite word, after love, God and family – but his commitment to him is as strong as usual.
The 78 -year -old Republican promised “Mukti Divas” for the US on Wednesday, when it declares a “mutual” tariff that targets any country with levy imports against American goods.
Suddenly the trade war has sent leading world economies scrambling – yet no one surprised anyone has heard himself to Trump.
Other policies have come and gone, especially on hot-button issues such as miscarriage, but Trump believes that the US is being ripped by the world, it is one of their main values.
So they have congenital belief that tariffs are solutions, despite the arguments by opponents and many economists that American consumers will be damaged when importers passed on increased prices.
‘Majestic’
“I am a tariff man,” Trump declared back in a social media post in 2018 during his first presidential post.
In fact, Trump has been saying the same since the 1980s.
His main goal was then Japan, as Trump – was the most known in those days, known as a property dealer and tabloid stability – discussed involvement in politics in an interview with Larry King of CNN.
“Many people are tired of seeing other countries exiting the United States,” Trump said in 1987.
“Behind our back, they laugh at us because of our own foolishness.”
In a separate interview with the chat show host Oprah Winfrey, he said: “We allow Japan to enter and dump everything in our markets correctly.”
In the 1990s and early 2000s, China entered its crosshare, and with Beijing Canada, Mexico and the European Union, remains one of its top tariff goals.
In his successful 2016 election campaign, Trump made a statement saying, “We cannot allow China to rape our country.”
‘Very rich’
During his second term, Trump has begun to cite a historical example, which is going back for more than a century – President William McNlay.
McCinley’s passion for both regional expansion and economic protectionism during its time from 1897 to 1901 can be a model for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” policies.
Trump said in his inaugural speech in January, “President McCinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent – he was a natural businessman.”
Trump’s promises of a “Golden Age” of Trump return the so-called “Guilded Age”, which ended with the presidency of McCinley, at a time when the US population and economy exploded as well as with the power of elite.
In addition to deploying the tariff, McCinley presided over the period of regional adventure for the United States, including the Spanish-American War and the purchase of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Such steps echoes Trump’s design for Greenland, Panama and Canada.
The two also share the unwanted equality of a killer being hit by a bullet – although Trump saved his life attempt at an election rally last July, McKinley was killed by an anarchist in 1901.
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