Vote Trump if your big issue is mountains named after middling presidents

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published 1 September 2015

Republican braggadocio Donald Trump has made his campaign all immigration policy, all the time — until now. Following Sunday's news that President Obama officially directed the federal government to refer to the tallest peak in North America as Mt. Denali instead of Mt. McKinley, Trump pledged via Twitter to change the name back once he gets to the White House:

Many native Alaskans — who have far fewer votes in the Electoral College — have used the name Denali for generations, and the state government has been attempting to get Washington to recognize the traditional name since the 1970s.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.