Donald Trump's national park tip line flooded with angry messages

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Source: msn




Story by Sophie Clark • 43m •

A tip line set up at national parks and monuments by the Trump administration has been flooded with angry visitors.

The Trump administration has been asking national park visitors to report any language they see in the parks that is "negative about either past or living Americans or that fails to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes." They can do this via a QR code link attached to signs.

According to National Park Service (NPS) sources who spoke with Government Executive, over 200 people have responded to the signs, but none have followed the prompt. Instead, they are using the QR code page to say they find the request "outrageous."

Their responses have not been independently verified by Newsweek.

A Department of the Interior spokesperson told Newsweek: "It is a true shame that employees are spending their time leaking to the media instead of doing work for the American people. The same American people who fund their paychecks. Leaks will not be tolerated and this will be investigated..................





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I and friends and a few family spent the day hiking -swimming at Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin a few days ago. I do not recall seeing the sign when we registered but I would have ignored it anyway.

[Delarage]

1. So instead of having nature guides

We are paying people to sit there and listen to tips (most of which I'm sure are made-up) that are supposed to narc out parks that might say something critical about someone who was terrible? I guess I should go take down my "F-Trump" signs I posted all over the National Parks (JK).

[cbabe]

2. Disingenuous response.

‘ …It is a true shame that employees are spending their time leaking to the media instead of doing work for the American people. The same American people who fund their paychecks’

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Jabbering gaslighting red herring bureaucratic response. We have a right to the information we are paying for.

[Journeyman]

3. Every time they ask for people to squeal, I think of this clip . . .

[Beartracks]

4. Leaking to the media AND working for the American people: it's called multitasking.

It's these Park employees simply being efficient.

And plus, leaking stupid Republican bullshit to the media IS working on behalf of the American people.

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[DBoon]

5. They actually put one of those signs at Manzanar!

The former Japanese WWII detention camp

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/signs-negative-history-manzanar-historians-20376758.php

On the orders of the Donald Trump administration, National Park Service employees hung two highly controversial signs this week at Manzanar National Historic Site, a museum examining the property’s former role as a prison where the U.S. government incarcerated more than 10,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Displayed on a site where American citizens were held against their will for more than three years, the signs encourage visitors to report any depictions of U.S. history that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” or fail to highlight the “beauty, abundance or grandeur” of the landscape, according to a Manzanar official.