President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Denali, North America’s tallest peak, back to its former name, Mount McKinley.
During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Here's why:
a prospector in Alaska in the late 1800s on the hunt for gold in the Cook Inlet, admired William McKinley, who was then the president-elect. Mr. McKinley, who was from Ohio, had no known ...
See the sources for this fact-check President William McKinley may never have set foot in Alaska but one of President Donald Trump’s first executive actions upon reentering the White House was ...
In 2015, the name of the peak was changed during the Obama administration to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and preference of many Alaskans.
The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former President Barack Obama.
Trump vouched his support during a speech Sunday in Phoenix for changing the name of Denali in Alaska back to honor former President William McKinley, who was born in Ohio and assassinated early ...
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,
King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley -- an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.
The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain
undoing a 2015 decision that had restored the peak’s Alaska Native name, Denali. The decision appears to reflect Mr. Trump’s increasingly public admiration for William McKinley, the 25th ...