Trump vows to rename Denali as Mount McKinley

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

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.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-vows-rename-denali-north-americas-tallest-mountain-mt-mckinley-2024-12-22/

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Trump is such a bastard.

McKinley never visited the mountain, has no real connection to it.

The state had restored the.original Native American name in 1975.

McKinley is known mostly for raising tariffs.

[PSPS]

1. His base will love it because it was changed by "the negro."

[Jerry2144]

24. I don't think that's quite the word they use

When referring to President Obama. Close. But not quite

[rampartd]

46. "free peech" for them is alll about that word

"they (rappers and such) can say it. why can't we?"

my answer : go ahead. say it. it tells us who you are.

[WokeAintWhatIAm]

99. SO, you wanna be a rapper?

Start rapping...

[NotHardly]

41. He's throwing a lot of sh*t at the wall (Panama, Denali, other things)....

My take is that this is all just shade and distraction to keep us from watching him and his minions are actually up to.

[dutch777]

103. Yeah, and to look like he is doing SOMETHING because he won't cure inflation or anything meaningful

And yes maybe slip thru some tax cuts for the rich and infamous.

[wnylib]

104. Mr. Trump can call the mountain anything he wants to,

but it will always be Denali to me. And I hope that the people of Alaska will continue to call it Denali, too.

Just ignore the manchild's tantrums and go on as usual.

[BOSSHOG]

52. Irony

Trumps supporters political party is now led by an African American.

[Mike 03]

2. He's such a megalomaniac. Just wait,

it won't be long before he talks about renaming points of interest in other countries, and then other countries. He'll rename Greenland, he'll rename Stonehenge, he'll rename Jerusalem...

[Dave Bowman]

10. When he's done with his regressive agenda he could rename Washington D.C for Retrograd.

[calimary]

38. No, he'd rename it after himself.

He’d probably want to plaster his name on anything his eyes could see.

[rampartd]

47. there was a virtual orgy of naming things after reagan

i expected everything to be "trumped" after biden beat him.

[Ocelot II]

60. Most of that renaming happened after Reagan died,

though I think he was still alive, technically anyhow, when they renamed DCA after him. I knew air traffic controllers who refused to call that airport Reagan National, for obvious reasons. I don't think there's a requirement that a person be dead to get something named after him, but if that's what it takes...

[rampartd]

63. i don't know about naming either

certainly money, stamps, and ships are named "in memorium." only

speaking of money. i guess the harriet tubman $20 is dead and women will stop being on quarters.

[IzzaNuDay]

81. Most of the old time DC residents

will not call that airport by that man’s name. I still refer to it as DCA or National. For the same reasons air traffic controllers won’t.

[calimary]

75. Oy, reagan.

A “virtual orgy” is a great way to put it. An “orgy” that I didn’t have to wait til the end to upchuck. Heck, there WAS no end. There are people who’d happily talk to the Pope about canonizing reagan - probably to this very day.

Go figure. Maybe some can, somehow. The idea totally evaded me!

[Dave Bowman]

73. Trump City?

🤢

[pandr32]

14. I'm just worried he will have his face...

...carved onto Mt. Rushmore.

[DBoon]

30. carving his posterior into Mount Rushmore would be more fitting

[pandr32]

42. Not into Mt Rushmore, though.

More like a garbage dump.

[Ocelot II]

61. I don't think it's possible to carve anything else into Mt. Rushmore.

Even as it is, it's an insult to the Lakota people. And would Trump even want to share a mountain with other presidents? He'd want a bigger one all to himself. Maybe Denali, since he's going to try to rename it anyhow, but he'd probably want one closer to home that his adoring cult members could worship all the time. Devil's Tower, maybe?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

87. Just don't show him Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota.

Is the Crazy Horse Memorial bigger than Mount Rushmore?

When completed the Crazy Horse carving will be 641ft long and 563ft tall. Mt Rushmore is 203ft long and the heads are 18.3m 60ft high. The left side of the face, black rock to nose, is where all four presidents of Mt Rushmore would fit.

[Jack Valentino]

97. Does Mount Rushmore have a backside ?

[rampartd]

48. that is when i get out the dynamite

[erronis]

3. Let's name a little bump in New Jersey as "Mound Trump"

His worshipers can plant button mushrooms on top.

[Ocelot II]

4. Does he propose to "rename" everything that has a Native name

because it's too woke to respect the naming traditions of the people who bestowed those names in the first place? There was a big kerfuffle here in Minneapolis a few years ago at the renaming of Lake Calhoun, named before the Civil War after John C. Calhoun, an ardent supporter of slavery, the removal of Natives from their lands and states' rights. That's not why the lake was named after him - it had to do with his authorization of the construction of Fort Snelling, and naming the lake was how the surveyors of the area at that time honored him - but his support for slavery and Native removal gave his name a bad odor and there was a lot of pressure to give it its original Dakota name back. After extensive litigation (and a lot of whining by the rich folks on the west side of the lake) over who had the authority to rename it back to Bde Maka Ska, it finally happened in 2020. If it were the subject of federal jurisdiction Trump would probably insist on giving it back to that dead racist fuck Calhoun.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Many towns, cities, locations in the US have NA names.

He has a lot of work ahead of him if this is his goal.

[Ocelot II]

7. About half the states have Native names. That'll keep him busy.

I think Trump wants to re-re-name Denali at least in part because Obama changed the name in the first place.

[LeftInTX]

19. About 80% of Wisconsin towns are NA names.

[Irish_Dem]

59. Yes many of his actions are based on revenge, hatred, anger.

Yes in some areas of the country, the county, towns, townships are all NA names.

[IzzaNuDay]

82. Obama still lives rent free in that dotard's mind

Everything: his intellect, his policies, his attire, the Nobel Peace Prize, his family, his birth certificate.That is just a sampling, sure there are more!

I would have thought once the dotard won the election, his jonesing for Obama would have died off. Guess I was wrong!

[HUAJIAO]

57. I live in one of them.

[spike jones]

37. Clemson U dumps Calhoun.

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/clemson-removes-slavery-supporter-calhoun-asks-approval-to-remove-tillman-from-buildings

[milestogo]

5. And somewhere there is a hill made up of trash that will be re-named Mount Trump.

[pandr32]

43. Perfect.

[Oneear]

8. Donald J. Trump must be Drinking from the lead Cup again

Going to be a Long 4 Years

[Diamond_Dog]

9. The Natives were there first.

Trump is such a racist f**k

[eShirl]

11. He talks a lot of shit that never comes to pass.

[Silver Gaia]

23. Yes.

Anything he says is 99% BS.

[calimary]

40. Well, there certainly is that.

[Captain Zero]

12. At least McKinley had the decency to

Die, after he was shot.

[SunSeeker]

13. McKinley never visited the mountain and had no significant historical connection to the mountain or to Alaska.

It was ridiculous to name it after him in the first place.

[Kali]

15. he is just trolling

has nobody in what? 40 plus years of the internet in regular use not learned?

[Keepthesoulalive]

22. They just can't quit him

Pretty soon we will be like fox, perpetually outraged.

[JoseBalow]

50. N00bz never learn

[Omnipresent]

16. Trump cares about things, no one else cares about.

I remember the orange anus complaining about Paul McCartneys divorce settlement from over ten years ago.
He complained that Paul’s soon to be ex was about to receive over 80 million pounds. Then trump said, “I don’t remember her being on stage on the Ed Sullivan show”.
So i thought Paul was making a big to do about it in the press. Why else would a celebrity like trump bring it up.
It turned out that the settlement was reported in the press, and Paul was Crickets about it.
Like I said, trump cares about things, that no one else cares about.

[LeftInTX]

17. This is another Trump rerun. I believe he could have done it in his first term as an executive order.

Red state Alaska didn't like the idea, so he gave up.

From 2015

Donald Trump: I'll Change Denali Back to Mount McKinley
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-change-denali-back-mount-mckinley/story?id=33452776



From 2016
https://alaskapublic.org/news/2016-11-16/will-president-trump-follow-through-on-changing-denalis-name-back-to-mt-mckinley


After the 2016 presidential election, President Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reportedly asked Alaskan senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski if they wanted Trump to reverse the name change. The two senators told Trump that they did not want this to happen, and Trump agreed not to reverse the name change.[38][39]

[Magoo48]

18. Won't he have to run that by President elect Musk?

[joanbarnes]

20. Rename Mt. Trashmore landfills after tRump, since he wants stuff named after him.

[Paladin]

21. trump to Native Americans: Get fucked.

It'll never be anything other than Denali, to me.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

28. Denali.....the "great one"

Last edited Sun Dec 22, 2024, 09:34 PM - Edit history (1)

A fitting name for the highest peak in North America.

As much as Trump loves using the word “great”, it seems he’d be cool with a name describing the mountain as great. But no……

I agree with other posters in that this is Trump being petty and wanting to erase something positive from the Obama administration.

[LudwigPastorius]

62. Trump gave a big "fuck you" to Native Americans...

years ago when one of his first moves was to prominently display a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office.

[prodigitalson]

25. Bolshaya Gora

That was the name for it when it was part of Russia.

Maybe one day again?

[DFW]

31. Is that for real? If so, it's perfect for Trump's level of comprehension.

That is just Russian for "The Big Mountain." A literal translation of "Denali" in the Koyukon Athabascan language.

It beats" McKinley" in any case. Trump would name the Supreme Court "The Nixon Buiilding" if he could spell "Nxon."

[Wicked Blue]

26. Maybe the Native Americans should deport him

back to where his ancestors came from.

Although I don't know how they could send him back to Hades.

[DFW]

32. Does anyone know where Styx River cruises can be booked? n/t

[Wicked Blue]

49. At the Styx Docx

Or maybe Styxitmaster

[Martin68]

27. Just a childish poke in the eye of Democrats and Native Americans. Meaningless.

[onenote]

65. its a sop to ohio repubs

[Escape]

29. We've renamed some things too...

Our new puppy keeps taking a Trump on the living room floor.

[doc03]

33. Next he will putting the Confederate Generals names back on our Army bases. The

MAGAS would love that.

[Evolve Dammit]

83. Look for it. Totally possible.

[Susan Calvin]

34. I know I'm not saying anything new here, but

He's a jerk just to be a jerk. Like some teenagers I've known, but they at least have lack of experience as an excuse.

[nwduke]

35. The orange buffoon

is so stupid, he’ll probably tell the Native Americans to go back to where they came from and have his gestopo head, Homan initiate deportation orders for them!

[Wiz Imp]

36. Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain to Denali in 1975, which was how it is called locally

However, a request in 1975 from the Alaska state legislature to the United States Board on Geographic Names to do the same at the federal level was blocked by Ohio congressman Ralph Regula, whose district included McKinley's home town of Canton.

So Alaska renamed 50 years ago and requested the Federal Government to officially rename it then as well but some jerk of a Republican Congressman didn't want to change it. When Obama finally renamed it in 2015 the renaming of the mountain received praise from Alaska's senior U.S. senator, Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who had previously introduced legislation to accomplish the name change. I thought Republicans professed to be all about states rights so why does Trump want to overrule the wishes of the state (A pretty hardcore Republican state, in fact)?

[NewJeffCT]

88. State's right only apply

when it's Democrats trying to do something national. IOKIYAR.

[4catsmom]

39. wasn't McKinley assassinated?

Just a thought

[mn9driver]

44. This is standard behavior.

He had a bad week playing president and now it’s time for distractions. When he’s done with this idiocy and the Panama idiocy, the next idiocy will be all set to go.

What he guaranteed, and is not going to be able to do, is to lower the price of eggs or bring back jobs that his meth head supporters want.

[LoisB]

45. IT is such an idiot. Someone whispered this in his ear because I doubt he had ever heard

of William McKinley (who was not a "great" President) or Denali.

[IcyPeas]

51. He's still wants to undo everything that Pres. Obama did. He wants to erase Obama.

[Solly Mack]

53. Mount White Man. Because, fuck the natives.

Said the orange man.

[33taw]

54. I have bigger concerns than this issue.

[Orrex]

55. Perhaps he'll follow McKinley's example

[dflprincess]

56. Outside of getting assassinated and so making Theodore Roosevelt president

I can't think of anything McKinely did that made him memorable.

[Wiz Imp]

71. McKinley was actually a middle-of-the pack President who did some good things

- Construction of the Panama Canal (initiated)
- National Parks Creation including Yosemite National Park, Mount Rainier National Park & Crater Lake National Park
- Spanish-American War
- Annexation of Hawaii
- Open Door Policy in China

along with a couple things that probably endear him to MAGAs
- McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 (enacted when he was in Congress before he became President) though to be fair, the economy was very good during his Presidency
- Gold Standard Act

[Picaro]

58. Every newspaper should have a permanent front page

Donald Trump the Douche Bag in Chief is doing/has done or is going to do something he hopes enrages at least 50% of the adult US population. Because he’s a dick. And this is his schtick.

Tired of it yet?

[Polybius]

64. The only name that I would change back over there is Barrow, Alaska

It was changed to an unpronounceable name, Utqiagvik, in 2016.

[BidenRocks]

78. Like Spock's first name.

You couldn't pronounce it. TOS

[maspaha]

66. He will do or say ANYTHING to get attention!

He’s worse than a neglected toddler. Ignoring him bothers him more than arguing with him.

[Aristus]

67. This would be a great time for Trump to "return it to the states",

like he’s always blithering about.

Alaskans want it to be Denali, and Denali it should remain.

[Seinan Sensei]

68. I think Pres Biden needs to rename Mar-a-Lago

[usonian]

69. 120% of what he says is a coverup for his grift crusade.

Won't be long before the puffy shirt.

[heckles65]

70. In the 1800's the Royal Geographical Society

decreed that native names should be favored. Hardly anything new.

(Which didn't stop them from using a non-native name for the world's tallest mountain.)

[Greybnk48]

72. This will NEVER happen.

Ask anyone who lives there.

[valleyrogue]

74. McKinley is best known today as being the third president to be assassinated.

If Alaskans want "Denali," they should have it.


I don't have any problem calling the mountain that name.

What's next? Renaming Mt. Whitney to Mt. Garfield?

[Fiddlelady11]

76. When I lived in Alaska

No one ever called it Mt. McKinley. We all called it Denali. That was in the 80s and 90s.

[CTyankee]

77. Always "working hard for the people." Yep. Got that.

[pazzyanne]

79. Grrrr rr r!

[pazzyanne]

80. X#@*&*$&

[Hugin]

84. That'll make eggs cheaper for sure!

Then the High Maintenance Mussolini can name the pile of bullshit he’s dumped on us Mount Trump.

You know it’s coming, right?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

85. Native Alaskans had named the mountain Denali ("The Great One") long before the first white man arrived.

Alaskans had been calling it that for decades.

It will take an act of congress to get the name changed; Trump can't do it by fiat.

He probably couldn't point it out on a map. Hell, other than the battleground states, New York, Florida, Texas and California, he can't point to and name any of the states.

If he could rename things at will, he would. Our country would become "Trump States."

[DemMedic]

86. Perhaps they can name something in Ohio for him

Since that was where President McKinley was from.

[Scrivener7]

89. Getting right down to those "kitchen table issues" his voters chose him for. I'm sure

this will reduce the price of eggs tout suite.

[hadEnuf]

90. So this nonsense is part of Trump's "priorities"?

Inconsequential shiny objects to give the fake patriot crowd a new purpose in their otherwise rudderless daily lifestyles?

Sounds about right....

[Botany]

91. Tell me how he won the Native American vote again? Please. Btw Denali will always be its name.

The Native Peoples already named it. And he can’t change that. End of story.

God that election was way dirty and now a monster, his crew of crooks, international terrorists,
and hard core racists are coming to power.

America is truly fucked.

[IronLionZion]

92. He can rename it Denial

and rename Obamacare to Trumpcare.

[travelingthrulife]

93. Denali is such a beautiful name. Why would anyone want to call it McKinley?

It was renamed in 1975. Obama just formalized that change.

[JustAnotherGen]

94. Culture War

Distraction tactic. Don't fall for it folks.

Stephen Miller is still out there scurrying around.

[JohnnyRingo]

95. Can he just do that on an Executive Order?

If so, it's a dangerous power. The president could be renaming everything across the country to suit him and his party.

[Ray Bruns]

96. Another brain fart from the imbecille about an issue no one gives a damn about.

[Jack Valentino]

98. If renaming Mt. Denali were the worst thing he does, to native Americans and everyone else,

we'd be damned lucky.

[Beringia]

100. Maybe he has a dedicated staffer to look up things Obama did that he can reverse

How else could he know a thing about Denali

[no_hypocrisy]

101. Name it Mt Trump and get it over with.

[FullySupportDems]

102. That fucker

I was going to rec anyone who said it, but no one did, so I said it. That stupid disrespectful fucker

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

105. He's fighting yesterday's battles

But they said Biden was the one who was senile.

[HereForTheParty]

106. Can he do this unilaterally?

And if so, what else can he rename?