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bookmark_borderMt. McKinley and Gulf of America name changes take effect!

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President Trump made good on his promises to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, and to restore the name of Denali back to Mt. McKinley. (I blogged about the latter back in December, which you can read about here.)

As the Instagram account Italiani4Trump points out, the new name Gulf of America honors Italian explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. 

 
 
 
 
 
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And of course, the name Mt. McKinley honors President William McKinley, who unjustly had his name removed from the tallest mountain in America by President Obama back in 2015. 

According to Fox News, Google Maps is updating its maps to reflect the new names.

 
 
 
 
 
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This is fantastic news, and I am truly hoping that these name changes honoring deserving historical figures are only the beginning…

bookmark_borderTrump hopes to change Denali back to Mt. McKinley

Posted on by Marissa

Good news: President-Elect Trump plans to change the name of North America’s tallest mountain, currently known as Denali, back to its original name of Mt. McKinley.

At a recent rally in Phoenix, Trump said he wants to return president William McKinley’s name to the Alaskan mountain because “he was a great president” and “I think he deserves it.” (source)

The mountain was given the name Mt McKinley in 1917 but was changed to Denali, the indigenous word for “High One,” in 2015 by the Obama administration. Obama’s Department of the Interior alleged that McKinley lacked any “significant historical connection to the mountain or to Alaska.” The name originated from a gold prospector who, upon learning that McKinley had won the Republican nomination for president, named the mountain in his honor. 

In my opinion, this is great news because it signals Trump’s willingness to take the side of historical figures rather than the politically correct bullies who aim to obliterate them from existence. The renaming of Mt. McKinley took place well before the horrific genocide that erupted in the spring of 2020, so Trump’s plan to restore the name can’t really be counted as reversing any part of this genocide. But it’s cool to see an honor (hopefully) being returned to a historical figure who, as Trump points out, didn’t really deserve to have it taken away. Erasing historical figures – whether in the form of names, holidays, statues, plaques, memorials, or other public art – is something that is rarely reversed. Hopefully the plan to return Mt. McKinley to its rightful name is a sign of similar things to come.