“One could make two McKinleys out of Hanna and have plenty of Hanna left.” He is “lacking utterly in human sympathy, a king for selfish egotism, void of an imagination and the ability to put oneself in another’s place.” He is in love with money, not as a miser but “because he may make men creep and crawl and spring to do his word. This feeds his vanity, and he is vain with all the vulgarity and ostentatious strut of a turkey cock—a fowl, by the way, he much resembles.”17 Hanna’s money bought McKinley freedom from everything but Hanna. William Allen White regarded McKinley as “a kindly dull gentleman . . . on the whole dumb, and rarely reaching above the least common denominator of the popular intelligence. . . . He walked among men like a bronze statue . . . determinedly looking for his pedestal.”49 Whyte, Kenneth. The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst (p. 175). Counterpoint Press. Kindle Edition. Whyte, Kenneth. The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst (p. 175). Counterpoint Press. Kindle Edition. Whyte, Kenneth. The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst (p. 163). Counterpoint Press. Kindle Edition. ”

— Hanna, predecessor to Trump, for narcissism