Emboldened by a historic re-election victory, Donald Trump is wasting no time targeting Barack Obama's "woke" legacy, or what remains of it.

In a symbolic move to restore American pride after years of ritualistic self-flagellation, Trump said he will bring back the old name of America's tallest mountain, Mt. McKinley.

Americans had known the majestic 20,000-foot mountain by that name for over a century when Obama changed it in 2015, snubbing President William McKinley.

Trump targets Obama's renaming

Alaska had changed the name to Denali in 1975 and asked the federal government to do the same, but the switch was blocked for years by Republicans from McKinley's native Ohio, like Ralph Regula - who denounced Obama as a "dictator" over the name change.

In 2015, Obama took aim at McKinley in an executive order that said the 25th president had no meaningful historical tie to the mountain that bore his name or the state of Alaska.

Trump has expressed admiration for McKinley, who guided the U.S. to become a global power at the turn of the 20th century.

Trump's recent talk of purchasing Greenland harkens back to McKinley's expansionist presidency, which saw the U.S win a war with Spain and gain overseas possessions in Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, and the Philippines.

McKinley also oversaw economic prosperity through tariffs, something Trump has cited as an inspiration for his own protectionist agenda. McKinley was assassinated at the start of his second term in 1901.

Rolling back wokeness

While Obama tried to tear down a fellow president, the tables have now turned - and his own legacy is in jeopardy from a newly ascendant President Trump.

In a speech Sunday, Trump praised McKinley's economic success and blasted Obama's "not very gracious" treatment of the 25th president, whom Trump has often praised.

"McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president. They took his name off Mount McKinley, right? That’s what they do to people. ... But President McKinley was the president that was responsible for creating a vast sum of money in the United States that Teddy Roosevelt then spent," Trump told a crowd in Phoenix.

"So let’s say that they were both excellent presidents, but McKinley did that, and that’s one of the reasons that we’re going to bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it."

Trump has often objected to "politically correct" efforts to rename historic landmarks, and he promised Sunday to restore the old Confederate names of military bases that President Biden changed in the wake of George Floyd's death.