Democratic former president Barack Obama renamed the mountain using the local natives’ name of Denali in 2015, after a decades-long naming battle

US president-elect Donald Trump has said he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th US 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 on Sunday. “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.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    He was also a moron who got murdered by an anarchist at the height of popularity of anarchism in America because he thought it would be fun to head to a world’s fair-type event and stand in a tent and let people line up to shake his hand. He didn’t even have security checks. And this was after Lincoln was killed in a theater and Grant was shot in a train station. So Leon Czolgosz just pretended his hand was injured, wrapped the gun inside the bandage, walked up to McKinley and shot him point blank in the chest.