[caption id=”attachment_146848″ align=”aligncenter” width=”1024″]Kasich said Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, that he disagrees with President Barack Obama’s decision to rename Mount McKinley as Denali, the traditional Alaska Native name. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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Donald Trump will stand for Ohio in the dispute over restoring Mount McKinley’s original name of Mount Denali.
The Obama administration’s decision to jettison McKinley was a “great insult to Ohio,” Trump tweeted on Monday.
Ohio Governor John Kasich also opposed the change.
“You just don’t go and do something like that,” Kasich said. “In Ohio, we felt it was appropriate. A guy saw that mountain when he was one of the first up there … named it after the president. No reason to change it,” he told the Associated Press.
The mountain was named McKinley, however, when McKinley became a presidential candidate, not president.
Trump will rectify the dispute if he becomes president, saying that he will change it back to McKinley. Kasich has yet to say whether he would change it back.
