The next Interior secretary will also have 30 days to rename the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America, President Donald Trump ordered Monday.
President-elect Trump will sign executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali after his inauguration on Monday.
Shortly after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump signed a bunch of executive orders in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday,
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.
President Donald Trump said the Gulf of Mexico will be called the Gulf of America, while the Denali mountain peak will revert to its former name, Mount McKinley.
While a name change for the Gulf of Mexico could be applied for federal references, other nations have no obligation to follow suit.
Donald Trump will order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali in his first hours as the 47th president, The Post has learned.
As president, Trump can take the action to rename the body of water, although other countries don’t have to adopt the new name.
The post included a link to the New York Post, which reports it has learned that Trump will call for the Gulf of Mexico to become the Gulf of America. Denali will return to Mount McKinley — President Barack Obama changed the name of the continent’s highest mountain in 2015.
What’s in a name? A lot, according to President Donald Trump, especially when it comes to putting America first. In his inaugural speech on Monday, Trump repeated his wish to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.