Trump schooled by GOP senator on 'America First' policy that 'moved Depression worldwide'

Although Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) endorsed now-President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, it was a lukewarm endorsement.

The bad blood between Trump and McConnell remained, and MAGA Republicans were not happy when McConnell voted against confirming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Moreover, McConnell is a major critic of something Trump is enthusiastically promoting: tariffs.

Fox News' Chad Pergram, in an April 24 post on X, formerly Twitter, highlighted the reasons McConnell opposes Trump's steep new tariffs.

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Pergram tweeted, "McConnell on tariffs: For those who pay close attention (it is) remarkably similar to what happened in the '30s, it's called the Smoot-Hawley tax bill, signed by Herbert Hoover before FDR came into office with his widely thought to help move the depression worldwide."

President Hoover signed the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act into law in 1930. The Great Depression continued to worsen, as Pergram noted. And in the 1932 presidential election, Hoover was voted out of office when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt won by a landslide.

Pergram, in his tweet, continued, "And the slogan in the '30s was America First. So we've seen this in history unfold in a way that did not work for us or for other countries. And there's some of us who think, 'Mr. President, why don't we try something different.'"