William McKinley

(Newser) - In his first term, President Trump's favorite commander-in-chief, other than himself, was Andrew Jackson, the hatchet-faced, self-made populist who relished turning Washington upside down. Now he's partial to the barrel-chested, unfailingly polite William McKinley, a champion of American expansionism as well as of tariffs, Trump's favorite second-term...

(Newser) - Turns out President Trump gauges his esteem for predecessors by how well their portraits fit into his White House redecorating scheme. Or sometimes how well the frames around those portraits do. "I'm a frame person," Trump said Tuesday during a meeting with his Cabinet. "Sometimes I...

(Newser) - Federal authorities are on the case after a Pennsylvania paper ran a classified ad that appears to call for the assassination of President Obama, Editor & Publisher reports. “May Obama follow in the footsteps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley & Kennedy!” the ad read. Those presidents were assassinated in...