Order! Order! Trump brings order

Published January 24, 2025 6:05am ET



President Donald Trump’s executive orders don’t all fit into simple policy areas such as immigration or the economy. Instead, they are linked by a no less important desire to restore a proud and dignified traditional American culture.

Perhaps the most seemingly trivial or even capricious order is that the highest peak in the land should again be named Mount McKinley, after the 25th U.S. president. Most Americans grew up calling it McKinley, its eminence under that name probably being remembered from middle school geography lessons. It thus strikes a patriotic chord and is part of the inheritance of every American, a thread that binds them to the nation they knew as children.

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