Förutom att vara narcissistiskt lättpåverkad och överkänslig ang att bli utskrattad, så har Trump varit fixerad av tullar sen 80-talet.
Nu senast verkar han inspireras av president
McKinley.
Frågan är väl om Trumps visioner om Golden Era snarare blir Gilded Age; Förgyllda tidsåldern.
“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country. And then they went to an income tax concept,” Trump said days after taking office. “It’s fine. It’s OK. But it would have been very much better.”
Experter ang eran säger att Trump idealiserar en tid fylld av regerings- och företagskorruption, social oro och ojämlikheter.
"Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of phenomenal wealth, like John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan, held tremendous sway over politicians who often helped boost their financial empires."
“The most astonishing thing for historians is that nobody in the Gilded Age economy — except for the very rich — wanted to live in the Gilded Age economy,” said Richard White, a history professor emeritus at Stanford University."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-has-touted-gilded-age-tariffs-an-era-which-saw-industrial-growth-together-with-poverty
Trump 2018:
"I am a Tariff Man".
Trump under valkampanjen 2024:
"För mig är det vackraste ordet i ordboken 'tariff'".
Han har skämtat om att det är det fjärde favoritordet efter kärlek, Gud och familj.
Trump har börjat hänvisa till ett gammalt prejudikat från president McKinley (1897-1901).
McKinleys passion var territoriell expansion och ekonomisk protektionism.
Trumps invigningstal 20 januari:
"President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent -- he was a natural businessman."
"Trump's promises of a "Golden Age" harkens back to the so-called "Gilded Age" that culminated with McKinley's presidency, a time when America's population and economy exploded -- along with the power of oligarchs.
In addition to deploying tariffs, McKinley presided over a period of territorial adventurism for the United States, including the Spanish-American war and the purchases of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Such moves echo Trump's own designs for Greenland, Panama and Canada."
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250401-tariff-man-trump-s-long-history-with-trade-wars[/i]
Artikel från 2019.
2019 utkom en dokumentär - Trump's trade war.
Redan 1987, i Larry King Live, sa Trump:
“The fact is, you don’t have free trade. We think of it as free trade, but you right now don’t have free trade."
"A lot of people are tired of watching the other countries ripping off the United States," Trump said, adding,
"They laugh at us. Behind our backs, they laugh at us because of our own stupidity."
I en intervju med Operah yttrande han sig:
“A lot of people are tired of watching the other countries ripping off the United States. This is a great country.”
Han var besatt av Japan och Kina har tillkommit efter vägen.
Marc Fisher, författaren av Trump Revealed:
" He believed from the beginning that there’s really nothing worse than being laughed at.
“And he came to see the Japanese as laughing at the United States and taking advantage of the United States by stealing the jobs, by dumping product here.”
Bannon om Trump i dokumentären:
“He’s been a guy that’s watched Lou Dobbs for 30 or 40 years. "
Dobbs är en person som "long criticized free trade and globalization. "
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trumps-tariff-strategy-can-be-traced-back-to-the-1980s/
