Posted on 01/21/2025 10:52:14 AM PST by Red Badger
Monday marked a significant point in U.S. history, with President Donald Trump staging a triumphant return to the White House and following his inauguration with a slew of executive actions aimed at furthering his MAGA mission.
One issue he had been discussing at length in recent weeks involved renaming the Gulf of Mexico, and an announcement on the first day of his second term confirmed that he was already in the process of ordering its named changed to the Gulf of America.
Another natural feature, the nation’s tallest mountain, was also included in the statement, as Fox News reported:
The orders direct the Secretary of the Interior to make the name changes. The changes will apply to official federal documents and maps, though it is unclear whether the order also requires schools to use the new terminology.
Trump has repeatedly mentioned renaming Alaska’s Mount Denali as well, pointing out that it was originally named after President William McKinley.
“McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president,” Trump said at a December rally. “They took his name off Mount McKinley, right? That’s what they do to people. Now, he was a great president, very good president. At a minimum, he was a very good businessman. He was a businessman, then a governor, very successful businessman.”
President Obama renamed the mountain to Denali in 2015, in keeping with a request from the Alaska legislature.
The renaming effort was among many topics of social media discussion on Inauguration Day:
MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK.....................
Although restoring the Mount McKinley name resonated with many of Trump’s supporters, Alaska’s RINO U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was compelled to speak out against it.
As Politico reported:
“I’m totally against that,” Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters. “It is called Denali, which means the great one. So I would just suggest to President Trump, who wants to make everything great, they already have a great name for it.”
Murkowski said she spoke to Trump on Sunday about his plans to change the mountain’s name and that she plans another conversation on the matter with Trump.
In his speech Monday, Trump signaled his mind was made up, saying he would “restore the name of a great president … where it should be and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.”
Murkowski’s Alaska colleagues, while not enthusiastic about the move, were not as adamant about it Monday. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who spoke out against the name change as recently as last month, said he hadn’t seen the executive order to rename the mountain.
“We’ll see,” he said. “You never know, but there might be some important stuff in there for energy for America.”
And here’s a clip of failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s reaction to Trump’s announcement of the name changes:
Now restore Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday to their rightful holiday status.
Reverse Obama's malfeasance. DO IT!!
Perhaps we can call the Rio Grande something different like “Brave River of the South.”
every single military base needs their names changed back to what they were before also!
Most Alaskans call it Denali, including Sarah Palin.
https://prorhetoric.com/sarah-palins-farewell-speech/
“Getting here can be described as the best road trip in America! Soaring through nature’s finest show you will see Denali – the Great One – soaring under the midnight sun.”
YES!!!
Alligator River sounds good to me.................
You bet!!
Reverse Obama's malfeasance!!!
Please rename Mount Blue Sky in Colorado back to its historic name of Mt Evans. The one party rule in CO has empowered the libtards. If that can’t be done name Trump mountain, you know to sow unity and all that!
“Now restore Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday to their rightful holiday status.”
That’s coming. Only so much one can do in an afternoon.
Rename the mountain back to Mount McKinley and leave the park as Denali National Park...
100% agree!!!!!!!!!
My feeling is keep things named after politicians in the past and agree that nothing should ever again be named after a politician.
Murkowski is repulsive.
Can we add Reagan’s Birthday?
Reading the EO - that is exactly what Trump did - it is still Denali Nat Park.
As for me - DILLIGAS, locals will call it what they call it, what DC thinks is of no matter for most.
One verse with "gulf":
Luke 16
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
The great ones,
Moses and the Prophets.
Great name for a band!
Is GMC going to rename their SUV Mt Mckinley?
I hear you need a mountain of money to afford a Denali.
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