Trump wants to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley

President-elect Donald Trump wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Denali is an Athabascan word meaning “the high one” or “the great one.” A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak Mount McKinley after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska. “McKinley was a very good, maybe a great President,” Trump said Sunday. “There is only one name worthy of North America’s tallest mountain: Denali — the Great One,” Murkowski wrote on X.\ There is only one name worthy of North America’s tallest mountain: Denali - the Great One.https://t.co/eT248xLxJC — Sen. Lisa Murkowski December 23, 2024 Alaska and Ohio have been at odds over the name since at least the 1970s.