Trump, as Alaskans Balk, Puts McKinley, a Unifying Figure, Back on His Mountaintop
The move, the 47th president says, will ‘restore the name of a great president’ to ‘Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.’

President Trump is restoring President McKinley’s name to the tallest peak in North America, drawing objections from Alaskans. The state’s two GOP senators prefer, in Denali, one of several local names, but Trump’s executive order respects only a compromise President Carter struck in 1980.
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