{"id":2477964,"date":"2025-08-23T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-us-historys-tariff-men-new-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-u-s-historys-tariff-men\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:14:28","slug":"new-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-us-historys-tariff-men-new-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-u-s-historys-tariff-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-us-historys-tariff-men-new-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-u-s-historys-tariff-men\/","title":{"rendered":"New White House art shows Trump with US history&#8217;s &#8216;Tariff Men&#8217; New White House art shows Trump with U.S. history&#8217;s &#8216;Tariff Men&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-us-historys-tariff-men-new-white-house-art-shows-trump-with-u-s-historys-tariff-men%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2477964&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the White House has unveiled a new artwork in the West Wing titled &#8220;The Tariff Men,&#8221; which depicts president Donald Trump alongside four past U.S. politicians known for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-learn-from-past-mistakes-to-win-back-the-white-house\/\" title=\"Former ... Adviser Peter Navarro: Learn From ... Mistakes to Win Back the ...\">tariff policies<\/a>: Presidents William mckinley, Abraham Lincoln, thomas Jefferson, and Representative Henry Clay. The piece reflects trump&#8217;s focus on tariffs as a key aspect of his trade agenda, highlighting his efforts such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australia-wont-even-put-up-a-fight-will-accept-trump-tariffs-without-retaliation\/\" title=\"Australia Won\u2019t Even Put Up a Fight, Will Accept ... ...s Without Retaliation\">imposing reciprocal tariffs<\/a> on various nations too protect American interests. The painting connects Trump to past leaders who also prioritized tariffs-McKinley, whom Trump cited as a political inspiration, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >enacted important tariff legislation<\/a> in 1890; Lincoln supported tariffs to bolster Northern industry during the Civil War; Clay advocated protective tariffs as part of his &#8220;American system&#8221;; and Jefferson had a more complex stance, initially supporting tariffs for revenue but later wary of their constitutional implications. the new artwork follows other recent White House renovations under Trump, including plans for a new ballroom, and continues the management&#8217;s emphasis on trade policy as a cornerstone of its economic strategy. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">New White House art shows Trump with US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fishermen-get-big-win-from-scotus-after-being-forced-to-pay-government-monitors-mandated-for-their-boats\/\" title=\"Fishermen Get Big Win from SCOTUS After Being Forced to Pay Government Monitors Mandated for Their Boats\">history&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s &lsquo;Tariff Men&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A former White House staffer revealed on Thursday new art that was put up in the West Wing, showing President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3779757\/trump-administration-ends-rhode-island-offshore-energy-project-wind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> with four former U.S. politicians known for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3778930\/canada-tariffs-usmca-dropping-on-many-us-products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tariff<\/a> policies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  Former White House deputy principal deputy press secretary, Harrison Fields, posted on X a photo of the new painting titled &lsquo;The Tariff Men&rsquo;. Alongside Trump in the art are former Presidents William McKinley, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson, as well as former Representative Henry Clay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3779423\/trump-fed-candidates-interest-rate-cuts\/\">What Trump Fed candidates have said about interest rate cuts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3763815\/inside-georgia-ice-training-ground-thousands-new-recruits\/\">Inside the Georgia campus where ICE is training thousands of new recruits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3779686\/trump-appoints-sergio-gor-ambassador-india\/\">Trump appoints Sergio Gor as ambassador to India<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;A new addition to the West Wing,&rdquo; Fields wrote on X, attached to the photo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new addition to the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>The Tariff Men. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G2FX6gsGSb\">pic.twitter.com\/G2FX6gsGSb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Harrison Fields (@HarrisonWFields) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarrisonWFields\/status\/1958603833354952934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Tariffs are a core part of Trump&rsquo;s trade policy, and have affected countries worldwide. In April, Trump announced sweeping &ldquo;reciprocal&rdquo; tariffs on most nations. Since then, foreign governments have been working with the administration to facilitate deals in response to the tariffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3778849\/trump-tariffs-reduce-deficits-4-trillion-decade-cbo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">projected<\/a> that the administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-seeks-state-by-state-trade-deals-as-biden-sends-brexit-britain-to-back-of-queue\/\" title=\"UK Seeks State-by-State Trade Deals as Biden Sends Brexit Britain to Back of Queue\">tariff policy<\/a> would decrease the total deficits by up to $4 trillion over the next decade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new painting comes after Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3499661\/trump-white-house-renovations-echoes-real-estate-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">renovated<\/a> the Rose Garden and his announcement of plans to expand the White House with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3487660\/trump-ballroom-white-house-karoline-leavitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new ballroom<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of the four men featured in the new painting, Trump cites McKinley as a political inspiration. The 25th president led efforts to pass the Tariff Act of 1890. On Trump&rsquo;s first day in office, he said McKinley is the &ldquo;tariff king&rdquo; when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3297453\/trump-rename-mount-mckinley-american-tradition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">renamed<\/a> Denali as Mount McKinley in his honor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McKinley&rsquo;s 1890 tariff bill increased duties on imported goods to 50% during the manufacturing boom in the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln endorsed tariffs during his administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org\/abraham-lincoln-in-depth\/abraham-lincoln-and-the-tariff\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying in 1861<\/a>, &ldquo;the tariff is to the government what a meal is to the family.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He enacted tariff policies during the Civil War to protect American manufacturing, a key difference between the southern and Northern economies. <\/p>\n<p>Henry Clay, a former Kentucky senator and then-speaker of the House, delivered a praised speech in 1824 supporting protective tariffs as part of his &ldquo;American System.&rdquo; His protectionist tariff policies were accompanied with the creation of the national bank and government infrastructure subsidies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, President Jefferson had a more nuanced view on tariffs. He relied on them early in his administration as a large source of revenue, but would later express constitutional concerns. He called tariffs contradictory to the idea of limited government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the Napoleonic wars, Jefferson signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Embargo-Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Embargo Act of 1807<\/a>, forbidding trade with France and Britain so the countries would have to respect America&rsquo;s neutrality in the conflict. He called it &ldquo;peaceable coercion.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3778447\/white-house-tours-suspended-construction-trump-ballroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WHITE HOUSE SUSPENDS TOURS TO CONSTRUCT TRUMP-REQUESTED BALLROOM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Embargo Act, however, devastated the American economy by 1808 and propelled the U.S. into a conflict with England for Jefferson&rsquo;s successor, James Madison, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/president\/jefferson\/foreign-affairs#:~:text=Jefferson%20banned%20all%20British%20ships,of%20Jefferson's%20successor%2C%20James%20Madison.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> contacted the White House for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New White House art features Trump with historic &#8216;Tariff Men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2477965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25234672932449.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[61847,3634,32127],"class_list":["post-2477964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-tariff-men","tag-trump","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25234672932449.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477969,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477964\/revisions\/2477969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}