The Trump administration has officially implemented name changes for Alaska’s Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, as requested by the new president.

The Interior Department announced Friday that the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America and North America’s highest peak will once again bear the name Mount McKinley to “honor the legacy of American greatness.”

  • @reddig33
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    773 days ago

    How does this lower the price of eggs? ™

    • Jessica
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      183 days ago

      Easy one: it doesn’t. But it makes his stupid, stupid, base feel better about their failings. Thank god he renamed something. I thought he wouldn’t get anything done! America first! Looks like the deep state is at it again, somehow or some way or not at all! Fuck my freedoms!

    • Zier
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      153 days ago

      “Eggs” have now been renamed to “American Marbles”.

    • @AA5B
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      32 days ago

      Look at those fragile liberals getting all woke about a stupid name. Ha ha. Eggs? What eggs?

  • @RememberTheApollo_OP
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    683 days ago

    I knew about the Gulf renaming, but not about switching McKinley again.

    This is so stupid and pointless. Like Stalin or Kim Jong building statues and making wild statements about their country’s greatness while people starve or get thrown in camps.

    • qantravon
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      183 days ago

      It’s because Obama is the one that did the renaming. It’s just petty revenge nonsense.

      • @Copernican
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        93 days ago

        But the Republican Congress members of Alaska wanted it. They are against the change back from quotes I have seen.

        • qantravon
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          103 days ago

          Yep. But Trump doesn’t care about that, he just cares about removing a piece of Obama’s legacy.

      • @derfunkatron
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        42 days ago

        You’re probably right about it just being petty, but…

        President McKinley also annexed territory (Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Cuba, etc.), implemented insane tariffs, and pushed to keep the US on the gold standard.

        Looks like Jackson isn’t the only president that Trump idolizes.

          • @derfunkatron
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            22 days ago

            Well, true. I wasn’t exactly implying that Trump was reading a history book and learned all about McKinley. More like he said, “we should be strong and take land that we want and undo everything Obama and Biden did and tax our enemies and have gold everything,” and someone replied, “oh, sounds like McKinley.” To which Trump replies, “Obama renamed a great president?”

        • @Madison420
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          22 days ago

          He was also notably an insane outspoken racist.

  • WideEyedStupid
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    293 days ago

    Guess I’m not against deadnaming, after all.

    • @RememberTheApollo_OP
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      223 days ago

      He could’ve called it the “Gulf of the Americas” (North, South, and Central), a nice, all encompassing and decent name, but no… he had to go full Stupid Nationalist Dictator.

      • @Tikiporch
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        153 days ago

        The division is the point. The distraction is the point. Anything unifying is a hard pass.

  • @CharlesDarwin
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    32 days ago

    What a great use of time and money.

    FFS

  • @[email protected]
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    3 days ago

    Well time to write a script to rewrite all occurrences of [Mt. McKinley | Mount McKinley] to “Mount Denali” and same goes for the ole Gulf

    Edit: my NAS should maybe be renamed Denali too, in fact.

  • @catbum
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    83 days ago

    Alright, where’s the money coming or going here? Is Big Map behind this? Or is this just a fun freebie for Us the Populace™?

    (something something Atlas Shrugged)

  • swab148
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    83 days ago

    The way the title is worded, I thought they’d renamed Denali to “Gulf of America”