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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 05:58 PM Oct 2017

Alaska senators tell Trump they want mountain's name to stay

Source: Associated Press


Becky Bohrer, Associated Press
 Updated 3:18 pm, Tuesday, October 24, 2017

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — One Obama administration action that may be safe under President Donald Trump is the renaming of North America's tallest peak to Denali.

The Alaska mountain came up during a lengthy conversation that the state's Republican U.S. senators had with Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in March.

The Alaska Public Radio Network reported that U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan recalled the meeting during a weekend speech to the Alaska Federation of Natives.

He said Trump asked if Sullivan and Sen. Lisa Murkowski thought the name change from Mount McKinley to Denali should be reversed. Sullivan said no, and Trump accepted that.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Alaska-senators-tell-Trump-they-want-mountain-s-12302922.php

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Alaska senators tell Trump they want mountain's name to stay (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2017 OP
But the black guy did it! joeybee12 Oct 2017 #1
That's the guiding principle for everything trump does - undo the black guy! PSPS Oct 2017 #3
If Obama had found a cure for cancer joeybee12 Oct 2017 #4
Things are not looking good for the Thanksgiving turkeys Obama pardoned. tanyev Oct 2017 #2
Unbelievable that Trump even suggested this. SunSeeker Oct 2017 #5
you mean he didn't want Mount trumpmore? mdbl Oct 2017 #6

PSPS

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3. That's the guiding principle for everything trump does - undo the black guy!
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 06:12 PM
Oct 2017

Anyone who's been to Alaska knows Alaskans revere the name Denali.

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