President-elect Donald Trump has once again suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley, wading into a sensitive and decades-old conflict about what the peak should be called.

  • @GiddyGap@lemm.eeOP
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    403 months ago

    Not sure why Trump or Ohio should have any say whatsoever in what to name a mountain in Alaska.

    • rhythmisaprancer
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      63 months ago

      I suspect he is just stirring undirected conservative angst up, preparing his next meal perhaps?

    • rhythmisaprancer
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      33 months ago

      @MessagingMatters@mstdn.social This is exactly the kind of messaging we should use to reinforce this!

  • Jesus
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    153 months ago

    Don’t fall for the distractions, focus on the destructive and fascist things he wants to do.

  • @dunidane@lemmy.sdf.org
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    143 months ago

    He says they are taking it away from McKinley and that he was a great presideny. But I severely doubt the bafoon could even name the most memorable thing the guy did. Which was dying horribly from bungled medical care following an assassination attempt.

    • @stoneparchment@possumpat.io
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      143 months ago

      Idk I think the most memorable thing he did was bring a cow up to his college bell tower as a prank

      Cows can’t walk down stairs so they had to butcher it in the tower

      He was expelled for it

    • @Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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      43 months ago

      Maybe he got the idea of going hard on tariffs from trying to find a president he could relate to. Sadly, if he goes out the same way, we won’t get a Teddy Roosevelt out of Vance.

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    123 months ago

    Murkowski openly advocated for the Obama administration to rename Mt. McKinely as Denali…this feels like a really good way to piss off one of the most important votes in his party (for absolutely no reason).

    When Iwas there in the 90’s the locals called it Denali, not McKinley.

  • @Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    123 months ago

    He’s so fragile that slights against the legacy of other (select) presidents shatter his ego.

    Just kidding. He’s got a terrifyingly life-threatening, economy-ruining, complex that will kill us all with the shards.

  • FuglyDuck
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    83 months ago

    He probably also is trying to figure out how to slap his name on it.