President Trump praised former President William McKinley in his inauguration speech. So much for MAGA populism.

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President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals.

The move, the 47th president says, will ‘restore the name of a great president’ to ‘Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.’

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps.

Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley ... early in his second term in 1901 in Buffalo, New York. Denali is an Athabascan word meaning “the ...

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of Mexico will now be known as the Gulf of America “in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy and its people.”

The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain

William McKinley, the 25th president ... Federico Rios for The New York Times It is an unlikely restoration for an American president whose little-noted but highly consequential time in office ...

The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley ... Mr. Dickey used the name Mount McKinley in an article in the New York Sun in 1897 and it stuck. The name Mount McKinley became ...

The 47th president’s affinity for the 25th president is understandable, if not quite accurate.