The Trump administration has officially implemented name changes for Alaska’s Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, as requested by the new president.

The Interior Department announced Friday that the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America and North America’s highest peak will once again bear the name Mount McKinley to “honor the legacy of American greatness.”

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    10 months ago

    It’s called Denali and if I hear anyone call it Mt. McKinley in my presence I’ll sock them.

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    10 months ago

    How does this lower the price of eggs? ™

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      10 months ago

      Easy one: it doesn’t. But it makes his stupid, stupid, base feel better about their failings. Thank god he renamed something. I thought he wouldn’t get anything done! America first! Looks like the deep state is at it again, somehow or some way or not at all! Fuck my freedoms!

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      10 months ago

      Look at those fragile liberals getting all woke about a stupid name. Ha ha. Eggs? What eggs?

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    10 months ago

    I knew about the Gulf renaming, but not about switching McKinley again.

    This is so stupid and pointless. Like Stalin or Kim Jong building statues and making wild statements about their country’s greatness while people starve or get thrown in camps.

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      10 months ago

      It’s because Obama is the one that did the renaming. It’s just petty revenge nonsense.

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        10 months ago

        But the Republican Congress members of Alaska wanted it. They are against the change back from quotes I have seen.

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          10 months ago

          Yep. But Trump doesn’t care about that, he just cares about removing a piece of Obama’s legacy.

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        10 months ago

        You’re probably right about it just being petty, but…

        President McKinley also annexed territory (Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Cuba, etc.), implemented insane tariffs, and pushed to keep the US on the gold standard.

        Looks like Jackson isn’t the only president that Trump idolizes.

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            Well, true. I wasn’t exactly implying that Trump was reading a history book and learned all about McKinley. More like he said, “we should be strong and take land that we want and undo everything Obama and Biden did and tax our enemies and have gold everything,” and someone replied, “oh, sounds like McKinley.” To which Trump replies, “Obama renamed a great president?”

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      He could’ve called it the “Gulf of the Americas” (North, South, and Central), a nice, all encompassing and decent name, but no… he had to go full Stupid Nationalist Dictator.

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        The division is the point. The distraction is the point. Anything unifying is a hard pass.

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    10 months ago

    Well time to write a script to rewrite all occurrences of [Mt. McKinley | Mount McKinley] to “Mount Denali” and same goes for the ole Gulf

    Edit: my NAS should maybe be renamed Denali too, in fact.

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    10 months ago

    The way the title is worded, I thought they’d renamed Denali to “Gulf of America”

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    10 months ago

    I guess they looked at “Freedom fries” and thought it was brilliant.