Trump's a fan of President William McKinley, giving the Canton, Ohio, native a major shout-out in his inaugural address.
The pledge to rename Denali was opposed by environmental groups and Alaskan politicians, including Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to restore the name of North America's highest peak to Mount McKinley from 'Denali'.
Trump loves McKinley, as he said in the inauguration speech, because McKinley “made our country very rich through tariffs” and Trump himself is enthusiastically pro-tariff. But this itself should give pause to anyone who thinks that tariffs are an innately “populist” tool of economic policy.
Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's traditional inaugural lunch.
Trump said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs."
President Trump said he will sign executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.
In 2015, then-President Barack Obama changed the name to Denali ... A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska.
The mountain had been officially called “Denali” since 2015, a decision made by former President Barack Obama to honour the name long used by Alaska Natives
Trump's a fan of President William McKinley, giving the Canton native ... which it was known as for more than a century before President Barack Obama's administration in 2015 changed the name ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley ... President Barack Obama restored the name to Denali in part ...