Trump’s executive order celebrates McKinley, saying the 25th president “championed tariffs to protect US manufacturing, boost domestic production, and drive US industrialisation and global reach to new heights”. McKinley, a Republican, was assassinated early in his second term in 1901.
“This order honours President McKinley for giving his life for our great Nation and dutifully recognises his historic legacy of protecting America’s interests and generating enormous wealth for all Americans,” the document states.
Messages seeking comment about the name change also were left for the other members of Alaska’s congressional delegation and Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy. Alaska’s US senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali revert back to Mount McKinley.
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Trump revisited the topic during a rally late last year, following his election.
“McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president,” Trump said in December. “They took his name off Mount McKinley, right? That’s what they do to people.”
Alaska and Ohio had been at odds over the name for decades. Alaska had a standing request to change the name since 1975, when the legislature passed a resolution and then-governor Jay Hammond appealed to the federal government.
In the same executive order, Trump also called for changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The mountain has been known as Denali for thousands of years. (Adobe Stock)
Among other executive actions, Trump rescinded a 2023 decision by then-president Joe Biden barring drilling on nearly 3 million acres of the Beaufort Sea off the northern coast of Alaska. The US Department of Interior at that time said there had not been a federal oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic Ocean since 2007.
The 2023 decision came around the same time the Biden administration approved a large oil project, known as Willow, in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, angering environmentalists. Litigation around the approval of Willow is still pending.
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