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

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 ...

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.’

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.”

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 ...

The name Mount McKinley was originally published in a New York Sun article in 1897 in support of then-presidential candidate, William McKinley, who eventually went on to become president.

The move is likely to face some pushback in Alaska, where the Alaska Native name has long been favored for the continent’s tallest mountain.

Mount McKinley was officially renamed Denali in 2015, ending a century-long naming controversy. The decision was announced by then-Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, citing a 1947 law allowing name changes when the U.

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

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Here's why: