Mountain-naming turned out to be a curiously excessive precedence for Donald Trump. Mere hours after his inauguration, the president signed an government order to alter the identify of America’s highest peak from Denali, of indigenous Alaskan origin, again to Mount McKinley, because it was formally identified till Barack Obama intervened in 2015. The rechristening displays extra than simply the same old culture-war ping-pong. Like Mr Trump, William McKinley was a “tariff man”. As a congressman and later president, he swung America towards protectionism within the late nineteenth century. “President McKinley made our nation very wealthy by tariffs and thru expertise,” stated Mr Trump in his inaugural tackle.
