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.

The mountain was previously called Mount McKinley, after the Ohio native former president. The name was officially changed in 2015.

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to change the name of North America's highest mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley. "We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley to Mount McKinley,

The president made the name change through one of dozens of executive orders he signed on Monday. Former President Barack Obama’s administration ordered that the mountain be renamed as Denali in 2015.

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday,

The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former President Barack Obama.

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Here's why:

Alaska's top lawmakers oppose Trump's plan to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley, advocating for the name that honors the region's Indigenous heritage.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his decision to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in the U.S. Trump ordered on Monday to change the name of the peak to Mount McKinley.

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of America’s tallest mountain be changed from Denali to Mount McKinley, and that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed “The Gulf of America.”

But Trump's territorial assertions, in line with his ''America First'' worldview, sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.