Donald Trump’s order to change the name of the highest mountain in the United States faced pushback Friday from members of his own party.

  • @frunch
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    93 days ago

    The real reason he’s doing it is bc Obama changed it to Denali from McKinley

    The motion, which earlier cleared the lower chamber by a sizable majority, notes that state lawmakers called for the mountain to be known by its Indigenous name as far back as 1975.

    Four decades later, then-president Barack Obama officially recognized that push and dropped the moniker Mount McKinley, which had been the peak’s official name since 1917.