By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-22 21:07:41 | Updated at 2024-12-23 02:03:06
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Trump vows to rename Denali, North America's tallest mountain, as Mt McKinley
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 12/22/2024 | Kanishka Singh
Posted on 12/22/2024 12:56:37 PM PST by DFG
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901.
Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle. The peak had been officially called Mount McKinley since 1917.
"They took his name off Mount McKinley," Trump said in a speech to supporters in Phoenix. "He was a great president," Trump, a Republican, said, adding that his administration will "bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it."
The mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), was named Mount McKinley in 1896 after a gold prospector exploring the region heard that McKinley, a champion of the gold standard, had won the Republican nomination for president.
The U.S. Department of the Interior, in the 2015 order that was signed by Obama changing the name to Denali, noted that McKinley had never visited the mountain and had no "significant historical connection to the mountain or to Alaska."
Denali, the local Athabascan name, meaning "the High One," was officially designated as the peak's name in 1975 by the state of Alaska, which then pressed the federal government to also adopt the name.
McKinley, who served two terms as governor of Ohio before becoming president in 1897, led the country to victory in the Spanish-American War and raised protective tariffs to promote U.S. industry, according to the White House website on presidents.
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1 posted on 12/22/2024 12:56:37 PM PST by DFG
To: DFG
Can he get rid of Harry Reid Airport while he is at it?
2 posted on 12/22/2024 12:57:47 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
To: DFG
Good idea.
Trump is one of the few people who can fully relate to William McKinley.
3 posted on 12/22/2024 12:59:32 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: ifinnegan
Name it for McKinley Morganfield, and the left won’t squawk as much.
4 posted on 12/22/2024 1:04:33 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: DFG
Nothing should be named after a politician.
5 posted on 12/22/2024 1:06:19 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
To: DFG
Don’t forget to rename all those military bases back to their originals...
Eradicate all vestiges of 12-years of the American Communist Party’s control...
6 posted on 12/22/2024 1:06:35 PM PST by SuperLuminal
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