I always appreciate your attempts to engage in constructive dialogue, but some posters just aren’t worth it. Their entire existence on this board (and/or the interwebs) is to get a rise out of posters. They offer no original thought or insight, and when proven wrong, will simply change the subject/move the goal post. You’re too good of a poster to continue to waste your time.
My commute to work for six years included a view of Denali's peak. It's majestic!
Because only you guys are complaining about it. It's like changing the name of the Redskins...great job on that one, why don't you guys just stop telling everyone else what to be offended by.
These guys are amazing in their cluelessness. I live in such a stupid country. Also openly declaring themselves racist on a message board.
Trump has Obama Derangement Syndrome.Sorry if Pepsi (I searched for "Denali").
Trump vows to rename Denali, North America's tallest mountain, as Mt McKinley
FILE PHOTO: Denali, formerly known as Mount McKinley, can be seen from Air Force One as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Anchorage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901.
Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle. The peak had been officially called Mount McKinley since 1917.
"They took his name off Mount McKinley," Trump said in a speech to supporters in Phoenix. "He was a great president," Trump, a Republican, said, adding that his administration will "bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it."
The mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), was named Mount McKinley in 1896 after a gold prospector exploring the region heard that McKinley, a champion of the gold standard, had won the Republican nomination for president.
The U.S. Department of the Interior, in the 2015 order that was signed by Obama changing the name to Denali, noted that McKinley had never visited the mountain and had no "significant historical connection to the mountain or to Alaska."
Denali, the local Athabascan name, meaning "the High One," was officially designated as the peak's name in 1975 by the state of Alaska, which then pressed the federal government to also adopt the name.
Since then, Alaska lawmakers had petitioned the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name to Denali officially but it had been blocked for decades.
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, pushed back on Trump's pledge to rename the mountain.
"There is only one name worthy of North America’s tallest mountain: Denali - the Great One," Murkowski wrote in a post on X.
McKinley, who served two terms as governor of Ohio before becoming president in 1897, led the country to victory in the Spanish-American War and raised protective tariffs to promote U.S. industry, according to the White House website on presidents.
"Renaming a mountain is white supremacy!"
It seems to me the ones who are offended are the White Nationalist types pissed that a mountain’s name was restored to its historical indigenous name rather than an irrelevant white man’s.
It gives me a little bit of pleasure knowing that this sort of thing has been gnawing at Trump for the last four years.
I’m not offended by pretenders. You wanna play make believe, enjoy… that BS stops for me when you expect me to play too that’s all. You can pretend to be a princess or a fairy or whatever but back here on planet earth, we know you’re just a dude who can’t get laid or play sports
Here are some things for ya:
Why did Obama feel the need to change it from Mt. McKinley to Denali?
Too bad…we’re all one country so it should still be named Mt. McKinley. It’s stuff like this that further divides the country, i.e., trying to appease small pockets of the country. 🤨
Funny shirt - doesn’t bother me at all.Here are some things for ya:
A. Link to where I'm offended.
B. Definition of "you guys".
C. Why is it important to you that the mountain be named Mt. McKinley? Why do you care? (maybe answer post #50)
D. Here's a shirt for ya. Merry Christmas:
What was the name of the mountain before it was named for McKinley as a political statement?
Not remotely offended. But then again, I am technically a person of color.Here are some things for ya:
A. Link to where I'm offended.
B. Definition of "you guys".
C. Why is it important to you that the mountain be named Mt. McKinley? Why do you care? (maybe answer post #50)
D. Here's a shirt for ya. Merry Christmas:
To appease the butt hurt lefties who wouldn't stop crying. They didn't stop there, of course. There were professional sports team names that also had them clutching their pearls for dear life. Softest people in the history of our species.
Yes, ignore common sense. Be upset about a mountain name being changed back to what it used to be! White supremacy!!
Denali IS the "name it used to be" before white men took that name from the Native Americans and gave it a new name after a white guy who'd never seen the mountain.
Nope. My peers aren’t complete liberal whackadoos
This is a dumb topic… Trump says he wants to rename a renamed mountain that most of the country has no idea exists. My contribution to this thread is exactly what the topic deserves.
Thank you for thoroughly proving my point. This ONLY matters to Alaskans so why does Trump give a crap? Here's your timeline:
Yeah you’re right big healthcare insurance companies had little power before 2010 😂😂
Because Alaskans, led by Republicans, had already reverted to Denali and wanted the federal government to follow suit? That’s been mentioned several times in this thread.
