OAN Staff Avril Elfie
11:44am – Monday, January 20, 2025
President Donald Trump announced on his first day in office that he would sign an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali.
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The first report was new york post According to reports, President Trump plans to sign the order, which is one of a number of new executive actions he plans to take as the 47th party.th president.
The order states that the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America and that North America's highest mountain, Denali, will be renamed Mount McKinley.
“President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing a pillar of American civilization,” the preview obtained by the executive order reads. post.
The executive action directs the name change to the Secretary of the Interior, who is “responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands, as well as natural resources.”
If a name change is made, the change will be applied to official federal documents and maps. However, it is unclear whether this order will require all schools in the United States to use the new terminology.
President Trump had already proposed renaming Alaska's Denali Mountain, which was originally named after President William McKinley.
“McKinley was a very good, perhaps great, president,” Trump said at a rally in December. “They took his name from Mount McKinley, right? That's what they do to people. Now, he was a great president, a very good president. At least he He was a very good businessman. He was a businessman, then a governor, and a very successful businessman.”
Former President Barack Obama changed the mountain's name to Denali in 2015.
President Trump is expected to sign about 200 orders on his first day in office.
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