Throughout his inaugural handle, President Donald Trump vowed to vary the identify of Denali in Alaska again to Mount McKinley.

“A short while from now, we’re going to be altering the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” Trump mentioned, “and we’ll restore the identify of a terrific president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, the place it ought to be and the place it belongs.”

The mountain vary unofficially was named after McKinley in 1896, and formally by the federal authorities in 1917.

It was named after President William McKinley, the Ohio-born twenty fifth president of the USA. He served from 1897 till he was assassinated in 1901.

In his speech Trump mentioned McKinley, “made our nation very wealthy by means of tariffs and our skills.”

Within the years that adopted, controversy arose relating to altering the identify of the mountain to Denali, which aligned with Alaskan tradition. The identify was formally modified throughout President Barack Obama’s time period to Denali in 2015.

The identify change was one among a number of pledges Trump made on Monday as he declared “a golden age of America begins proper now.”

The William McKinley Presidential Library & Museum is in Canton.

CONTRIBUTING: Janson McNair, Canton Repository