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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."

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 89 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's called Denali and if I hear anyone call it Mt. McKinley in my presence I'll sock them.

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You're pretty swell yourself.

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hahaha, maybe it’s a regional thing? “You ain’t bad” means something like, “I bet you won’t”.

It’s egging someone on to do what they said.

You do see swell though!

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zier@fedia.io 7 points 4 weeks ago

Everyone here is so keen!

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 78 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

How does this lower the price of eggs? ™

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 weeks 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@fedia.io 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"Eggs" have now been renamed to "American Marbles".

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 67 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] qantravon@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Should we start calling it the Gulf of Obama in protest then?

[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump likely knows nothing at all about William McKinley.

[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks 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@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

He was also notably an insane outspoken racist.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe Trump is bucking for the McKinley treatment himself

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

He can have the Bog of Eternal Stench.

[–] youvegotmoxie@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago

It will always be Denali

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 weeks ago
[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Its name is the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago

Also, he's a white supremacist & neo-Nazi. Don't forget that part.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Guess I'm not against deadnaming, after all.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, that's stupid as fuck.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 weeks ago

Wow, eggs are so cheap now!

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

I think it's just "Denali," not "Mount Denali"

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago

The way the title is worded, I thought they'd renamed Denali to "Gulf of America"

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

GM has a bunch of vehicle trim levels to rename then too

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Streisand effect is going to be strong with these two.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

I guess they looked at "Freedom fries" and thought it was brilliant.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Does this mean GMC has to rename their vehicle to the GMC Mt McKinley?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

Never heard of 'em.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

What a great use of time and money.

FFS