At this point you suspect President Obama is just messing with Republicans’ minds: “How can I drive the crazies crazier?”

You can see him relaxing on the Truman Balcony one evening, nursing an extra-dry Grey Goose martini and looking forward to his Alaska trip.

Suddenly it hits him: “I’ve got it! I’ll change the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali! They’ll think ‘Denali’ is Arabic or Kenyan for ‘Four More Years.’ They’ll make fools of themselves. Especially that SOB Boehner. His orange head will explode.”

Sure enough, Republicans are falling all over themselves rediscovering the previously obscure greatness of President William McKinley. Who was from Ohio, never went to Alaska and never had anything whatsoever to do with the place.

Donald Trump vows that this outrage will not stand; he’ll change the name back. Now the rest have to top him. It’s like when Trump said he’d build a wall on the Mexican border and Scott Walker said maybe we should build a wall on the Canadian border. (Canadians second that emotion.)

Mike Huckabee will rename the entire state of Alaska “McKinley” or maybe “North Ohio.” Rick Perry will make Texas the biggest state once again. Ted Cruz will deport immigrants to the Yukon.

McKinley is a fitting hero for today’s Republicans. He was the hand-picked tool of the Rockefellers and the Robber Barons, the Morgans and the muckedy-mucks, the Kochs of the Gilded Age.

The only good thing McKinley did was make Theodore Roosevelt Vice President and then die, giving America one of its two great Republican Presidents. (Lincoln, not Reagan.)

Plus, Ohio deserves it for claiming to be “First in Flight.”

Nice work, Mr. President. Enjoy your trip.