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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:04 PM Aug 2015

Trump pledges to reverse Obama’s mountain renaming: (BOG)

Donald Trump promised Monday that he would return the name of North America’s largest mountain to Mount McKinley, undoing President Obama’s decision to call it Denali.

Calling Obama’s act a “great insult to Ohio,” Trump, who is running for president next year, tweeted late Monday that Obama reversed the name the peak had for more than 100 years, in honor of President William McKinley, an Ohio native.

The White House announced the Denali moniker Sunday, restoring the name that Alaska Natives had called it for thousands of years before a gold prospector named it after McKinley in the late 19th century, when he was a presidential candidate.

The mountain’s new name, when Obama announced in advance of a three-day Alaska visit that includes meetings with Alaska Native leaders, aligns with what the state has been calling it for decades....

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/252380-trump-pledges-to-reverse-obamas-mountain-renaming via The Hill

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Trump pledges to reverse Obama’s mountain renaming: (BOG) (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Aug 2015 OP
We need to name an active volcano "Mount Blowhard" after Trump BlueJazz Aug 2015 #1
Let's see if he is elected first yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #2
Your words are hopefully true. BlueJazz Aug 2015 #6
LOL! DeepModem Mom Aug 2015 #5
so, donny boy, you are going to undo the insult to ohioans by insulting first nation peoples? niyad Aug 2015 #3
by the way, it is NOT "the mountain's new name", but the name that native peoples have been niyad Aug 2015 #4
... left-of-center2012 Aug 2015 #7
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
2. Let's see if he is elected first
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:11 PM
Aug 2015

I doubt he would change it back because his first year would be President 101 for him. He will be so overwhelmed with the job that he won't know what hit him. First of all nobody will yes yes sir to him especially congress. But this is not going to happen anyway.

niyad

(113,239 posts)
3. so, donny boy, you are going to undo the insult to ohioans by insulting first nation peoples?
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:17 PM
Aug 2015

how, exactly, do you think that is going to help anything?

niyad

(113,239 posts)
4. by the way, it is NOT "the mountain's new name", but the name that native peoples have been
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:18 PM
Aug 2015

using for centuries.

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