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A state representative in Georgia filed an oddball resolution pushing to rename a mountain outside of Atlanta after President Trump.
Sawnee Mountain, which sits on a nearly 1,000-acre preserve just 50 miles outside of Georgia’s capital, is currently named after a celebrated Native American chief.
But the proposal from Republican State Rep. David Clark seeks to rename the Forsyth County landmark Trump Mountain.
The preserve is named after a Cherokee chief who aided “many of the first settlers” in the greater Atlanta area throughout the 19th century, according to a plaque near his statue on the mountain.
“Sawnee was a very friendly and generous man, and out of appreciation for his help, settlers gave his name to the mountain on which you now stand. No evidence has been found that the Cherokees called it anything other than ‘the mountain’,” the plaque reads.
Sawnee and his people were forced off their native land and pushed out west during the Trail of Tears in 1838, but his body was likely brought back to the Atlanta area to be buried, the plaque said.
Legends say Sawnee’s spirit still lingers on the mountain.
Clark, though, took a contrarian stance and insisted that renaming the mountain would “recognize the historic significance of President Donald J. Trump’s leadership and legacy.”
In the resolution, Clark explained that Sawnee Mountain was chosen to commemorate the town hall Trump hosted in Forsynth County during his 2024 presidential campaign.
Last year, Trump supporters pushed to have his face carved into the side of Mount Rushmore alongside Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt.
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