Reaching President Trump 100th day in his second term seems to have taken a lot longer than that since it’s rooted in the past rather than the present. Historians grade presidents on the progress they have made at the start of their administrations. It would be more appropriate to judge the president by the regress of the early portion of his second White House residency.

He has devoted his energies early to turning back the nation’s clock while Americans want to move forward. Trump demonstrated his nostalgia for former failed policies when he signed an executive order substituting President William McKinley’s name for Denali in Alaska. It’s back to the bad old days of American imperialism and corporate corruption that marked McKinley’s tenure as president.

During his administration, McKinley acquired Puerto Rico and the Philippines. More than a century later the Caribbean island is still without voting representation in Congress or votes in the Electoral College. The acquisition of the Philippines led to a bloody guerilla jungle war that previewed the disastrous Vietnam conflict. Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to take back the Panama Canal and steal Greenland from NATO ally........

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