The president-elect said he would also revert the names of multiple U.S. military bases.
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he would revert the name of Denali, the tallest mountain in the United States, back to Mount McKinley after he takes office.
President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the Alaska mountain as Denali, ending a decades-long battle over its name. The peak was officially named Mount McKinley in 1917, after the 25th president, William McKinley.
“They took his name off Mount McKinley,” Trump said in a speech that concludes the Turning Point’s annual AmericaFest event in Arizona on Sunday.
“He was a great president,” Trump said, referring to McKinley.
Trump’s administration will “bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it,” Trump added.
The mountain, which has an elevation of 20,310 feet, 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. McKinley was president from 1897 until 1901 when he was assassinated by anarchist and socialist Leon Czolgosz.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior in 2015 issued an order, signed by Obama, that changed the mountain’s name to