President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday,
The peak was known as Mount McKinley until 2015, when President Obama changed it in recognition of its 10,000 year old original Alaskan name
During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” something that he has mentioned previously. “America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest,
President-elect Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and the Denali peak in Alaska. The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali,
During his inuagural address, President Donald Trump vowed to change the name of Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley.
The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain
Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior. Trump said Jan. 7 at his Mar-a-Lago club that he wanted to make the change because of a trade imbalance with Mexico,
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."
The president made the name change through one of dozens of executive orders he signed on Monday. Former President Barack Obama’s administration ordered that the mountain be renamed as Denali in 2015.
An executive order to rename an Alaskan mountain with the highest peak in North America wouldn't be the first name change for Denali.
The Late Night host, taking a night off from his more in-depth A Closer Look segment, still chimed in on on all the inauguration night hoopla and assorted other Trump-related day one activities during his show-opening monologue, including Trump unveiling the new presidential portrait and signing over 100 controversial executive orders.