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‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinley.

‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinley

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

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- This^ Elevating a white dude, who never went there and had no connections to the region, over a native place name with actual history and meaning.
  Inverted DEI.
  Bonus: It also offends my sensibility of naming things after people who were still alive at the time. McKinley wasn't assassinated until 1901.
  
  Or in other words, Trump is a little snowflake.
- No, it's about restoring the history of White America to White supremacist Americans. They aren't thinking of indigenous people at all.
It's about hurting people. MAGA has a hardon for cruelty. After years of being made to feel stupid (intellectual elites), ignorant (woke), backwards (progressives) their resentment has festered into a burning hatred. They want to see people hurt. They voted against their own self-interest and the future of their children and the country in exchange for the daily televised blood sport of Trump's campaign of revenge.