Trump to rename Gulf of Mexico, Mount Denali on first day in office

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President-elect Trump volition motion enforcement orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali connected his archetypal time successful office, incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday.

The orders, archetypal reported by the New York Post, are among a slew of enforcement actions Trump plans to instrumentality aft taking the oath of bureau connected Monday. The actions would rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Mount Denali, the tallest upland successful North America, to Mount McKinley.

"President Trump is bringing communal consciousness to authorities and renewing the pillars of American Civilization," reads a preview of the bid obtained by the Post.

The orders nonstop the Secretary of the Interior to marque the sanction changes. The changes volition use to authoritative national documents and maps, though it is unclear whether the bid besides requires schools to usage the caller terminology.

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Trump has repeatedly mentioned renaming Alaska's Mount Denali arsenic well, pointing retired that it was primitively named aft President William McKinley.

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"McKinley was a precise good, possibly a large president," Trump said astatine a December rally. "They took his sanction disconnected Mount McKinley, right? That’s what they bash to people. Now, helium was a large president, precise bully president. At a minimum, helium was a precise bully businessman. He was a businessman, past a governor, precise palmy businessman."

President Obama renamed the upland to Denali successful 2015, successful keeping with a petition from the Alaska legislature.

Trump plans to motion astir 200 orders connected his archetypal time successful office, targeting migration and cutting backmost connected DEI initiatives.

Incoming Trump medication officials told Fox News Digital that the overarching taxable of his Day One actions is "promises made, promises kept."

"As soon arsenic President Trump places his manus connected the Bible and swears the Oath to the United States Constitution, the Golden Age of America volition begin," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital. "The American radical volition person a person who volition present connected the promises helium made to reconstruct our country’s greatness." 

Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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