Posted on 01/26/2025 5:50:12 AM PST by DoodleBob
Murkowski had McKinley renamed to Denali for politics...turns out none of the Eskimos tribes had called it that - but they all had different names for it....
Greenfield wrote a good article on it.
We call any place what we want to call it, the international community be damned.
Do we follow what the natives say about Deutschland, Misr, Nippon?
Or do we call them what we want?
And is it still Constantinople? Ceylon? The Gulf of Siam? Burma?
Your comment is spot on. He DID change the name and he can change the name. They just don’t like it.
The answer to your questions is “YES!”
Why can’t they just call the mountain Denali or Mount Denali and the park McKinley National Park?
Denali - Trump has as much power to change the name as Obama had
Gulf of Mexico - this could wind up being a place with two names, like the Persian Gulf (called the Arabian Gulf in Arab countries)
Sea of Japan - call the East Sea in Korea
I don’t recall all these chin-rubbing concerns being raised when Obama all of a sudden renamed Mt. McKinley to Mt. Denali.
All “boards” and such are another means of putting bureaucrat “experts” over and above the people.
Agree with mostly everything that Trump is doing but renaming the Gulf of Mexico. I say just leave it alone as history. Should we rename the state of New Mexico as well? Let’s not get too thin-skinned on all the stuff that doesn’t have much impact. Bigger fish to fry.
If it’s not legal, then it wasn’t legal for Obama to do it.
It didn’t bother the world or cartographers when they eliminated Israel from the maps of the middle east. I say go for it. And actually large portions of the Gulf are considered U.S. territorial waters. So why not? Gulf of America honors both continents and lies between them. How did one lone country get to name it after itself?
With all the much bigger problems we have, why are we wasting our time and energy on this?
On the other hand, maybe he’s just as pissed off as the rest of us at all the things that have been renamed and he’s just making a point.
How is "Bde" pronounced -- it is like "bidet"?
Did you read the article, attached in its entirety so you didn’t even have to click a link? According to the article Alaska had been trying to get the name changed back to Denali since 1975. And Americans were about evenly split on renaming military bases named after confederates.
Nah, the Caribbean Sea borders the north coast of South America. The Gulf of America touches only the shores of the U.S., Mexico and Cuba.
At first, I thought it would sound better if called the "Gulf of the Americas", but the Gulf is bordered in the south by the Yucatan Channel that runs between Yucatan and Cuba, below which is the Caribbean Sea, and then South America.
When I was a contractor, I often offered clients three options. If a client was difficult or oppositional by nature, I would campaign for the one I liked the least, knowing he would probably shoot it down. That gave me the best shot at getting either the first or second one that I actually wanted.
Trump has learned a lot about distracting the negative chatterers by plumping up a non-issue—so that he can do the more complex things that the media can't be bothered to research or understand.
Warning: This is not for the faint of heart!
Yes, indeed!
Leftist.
LOL. Did I say something untrue? You’re so sensitive, like a little snowflake.
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