'Infantile' Trump trashed by Alaskans for 'dumb' mountain name change: report

While the majority of attention has been focused on Donald Trump's decision to rename the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," leading to the banning of the Associated Press from White House functions for their failure to comply with the president's edict, Alaskans are fuming at the renaming of Mt. Denali.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Trump's simultaneous relabeling of America's highest peak back to Mt. McKinley has aggravated more than a few Alaskans, some of whom are amused while others outraged.

As Jeff Yanuchi, who runs dogsleds in Denali National Park and Preserve, put it: "It was just another instance of someone from Washington putting their big nose in a place that it just doesn’t belong," before adding the mountain "cannot be a political pawn. And that’s what they’re trying to make it.”

ALSO READ: Elon Musk's DOGE boys think this is a video game as Trump plots his 2nd coup

According to the Post's Karin Brulliard, "What perplexes many here is why Trump chose to thrust a mountain thousands of miles from Washington into a culture war while disregarding Alaskans’ wishes, their legislature’s pleas and their Republican U.S. senators’ disapproval. As the weeks go by, affront has turned to worry as the implications of more executive orders from afar, particularly those freezing federal grants and imperiling the jobs of 'parkies' who help drive the local tourism economy, begin to ripple across the permafrost."

Chris Noel, mayor of Denali Borough, is another naysayer about the change, telling the Post, "We prefer it to stay Denali, and we’re not going to change our name,” adding that he has not heard from one local who approves.

Comments made to the Post about Trump's decision to make the change, include, "“infantile,” “laughable."

According to 86-year-old Eliza Jones, the change is "dumb," telling the Post, "We don’t know who McKinley is. Denali has so much more meaning to it.”

"Alaska Natives and elected officials pushed Washington for decades to call the mountain Denali, as it had done with the national park in 1980. Objections by lawmakers from Ohio, McKinley’s home state, thwarted them," the Post report notes adding that the change was finally made by former President Barack Obama.

Sherri Jones Kriska of Fairbanks told the Post, "You want to make America great? Then keep it as Denali," before pointedly stating, " The undertone of racism is there."

You can read more here.