Speaking at a conservative TurningPoints USA conference in Phoenix, the 78-year-old said he would rename Alaska's Mount Denali to Mount McKinley after the 25th president.:
SARAH EWALL-WICE, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER 'They took his name off Mount McKinley,' Trump told supporters on Sunday.
- He praised McKinley as a 'great president' and said his administration would bring back the name Mount McKinley 'because I think he deserves it.'
- It comes after Obama sided with the state of Alaska in the long-running dispute over the highest mountain peak's name in 2015 and had it changed to Mount Denali, the name used by Native Americans.
- For nearly 100 years before that, it had been known as Mount McKinley since legislation created the national park in 1917...
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