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:
He should also change Utqiagvik (sic) back to Barrow.
The mountain’s original name is Denali, given to it by the original inhabitants.
McKinley was a great man, but his name was applied later, arbitrarily, by a federal government not by the area’s Alaskans, as it should have been. So, name the park after McKinley, instead of stomping all over tradition with big federal boots like Obama also did.
Is it too early to add Trump’s birthday?
Alaskans of all political stripes prefer Denali.
It wasn’t named for McKinley after his assassination. It was named by a McKinley supporter, who was not even an Alaskan, during the 1896 Election. The name stuck in the lower 48, but was never used in Alaska.
Alaskans have been calling it Denali since before we bought Alaska in 1867.
It's like genealogies, really.
Old members drop out, new ones join in.
Years active 1983–1991
It's like what people say, that the era of the prophets is over.
Precedent: After some wrangling, the geological feature is "Cape Canaveral", the NASA facility located there is "Kennedy Space Center".
I bet they didn’t see that coming!..................
THERE IS LAUNDRY LIST OF MILITARY PLACES THAT NEED TO REGAIN THEIR RIGHTFUL NAMES, ALSO,
YEs, I hear the new names and I have no idea where they are.................
How about juneteenth? It could become national wallermelon day and we could have seed spitting contests.
Heh...
The same thing happened with seers and roebucks.
Like a deer in the headlights.
They didn’t make enough doe............
Prophets were slim.
That’s why they wore clothes from sacks.............
Stiff competition buried them.
They were holey................
Oh see the deer. Has the deer a little doe?
Why soitenly....Two Bucks!
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