The move is likely to face some pushback in Alaska, where the Alaska Native name has long been favored for the continent’s tallest mountain.

Trump said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs."

President-elect Trump will sign executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali after his inauguration on Monday.

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump vowed to change the name of Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley. "A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak, Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley.

Donald Trump will order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali in his first hours as the 47th president, The Post has learned.

President Donald Trump says he plans to rename North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday calling for North America's tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley, reviving an idea he'd floated years ago and drawing a rebuke from Alaska's Republican senior senator.

While a name change for the Gulf of Mexico could be applied for federal references, other nations have no obligation to follow suit.

Among the roughly 200 executive orders President Donald Trump is expected to sign during his first day in office is a declaration to restore the name of the 25th president, William McKinley, to an Alaska mountain.

Flanked by tech billionaires, Trump previewed a presidency marked by culture wars, testing the limits of his constitutional power and a zero-sum approach to foreign policy.