US President-elect (will take oath as President on January 20, 2025) Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will again rename North America’s highest mountain ‘Denali’ after the 25th US President William McKinley. do. McKinley was the President of America from 1897 to 1901. He was assassinated while in office.
Democratic Party leader and former US President Barack Obama changed the name of William McKinley Mountain to Denali Mountain in 2015. Let us tell you that for decades there was a demand in Alaska that the name of Mount McKinley should be changed. Accepting this demand of the state, Barack Obama named the highest mountain of North America as Mount Denali.
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The name of the mountain became a matter of controversy in 1975.
Donald Trump, while addressing his supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, said, ‘They removed the name of Mount McKinley. He was a great president. I would once again name America’s tallest mountain after Mount McKinley. Because I think he deserves it. The name of North America’s tallest mountain became the subject of controversy in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the US federal government to officially change its name from ‘Mount McKinley’ to ‘Denali’.
Mount Denali became Mount McKinley in 1896
The mountain was informally named Mount McKinley by a gold prospector in 1896, and officially named Mount McKinley by the federal government in 1917 in memory of William McKinley. The native inhabitants of Alaska are called Dena or Dinah. In his name, the highest mountain of North America was called ‘Denali or Denali’, which means highest.
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There was opposition to changing the name of the mountain in Alaska
In 1975, the state of Alaska requested the US government to officially recognize the mountain as Denali, as this was the common name still used in the state and was close to the hearts of Alaska Natives. In 2015, the then US President Barack Obama decided to end this decades-long dispute and renamed North America’s highest mountain as ‘Mount Denali’ in honor of the native inhabitants of Alaska. The height of this mountain peak is more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters).
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