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Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apologies for more trump stuff on your feed, this hurt me personally.

I was born in Alaska, and I have never heard a single person there call it mckinley, despite the vast majority of my time there having been before it was "officially" recognized as Denali.

Now this rat bastard wants to change it, despite people calling it Denali long before any name was written down for the mountain. His greed is serving to lessen our culture in the popular eye.

P.S.

I know that the federal name isn't literally "the official name", but I'd be surprised if this doesn't cause a lot of people outside the state to start calling it that.

mckinley is lowercase on purpose

Edit: I want to mention that this is not entirely serious, as can be seen in me calling him a 'rat bastard'. This is obviously false, as he grew up in a loving rat family.

ARGH

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where does mt mckinley as a name come from?

Like why does he want that to be the name instead of what everyone calls it?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

From Wikipedia, he said:

McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president. They took his name off Mount McKinley. That's what they do to people. President McKinley was the president that was responsible for creating a vast sum of money. That's one of the reasons that we're going to bring back the name of Mount McKinley, because I think he deserves it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

President McKinley was the president that was responsible for creating a vast sum of money.

What a profoundly... "Trumpian" idea of a great president

Gross.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The guy even makes the nouveau riche embarrassed with his desperate insecurity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently not enough to vote for someone else...