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Yesterday Trump announced he was donating his first quarterly salary to the National Park System and Trumpsters everywhere cheered, “Make American Great Again”—–but there are a few BIG problems with this faux generous gesture:

1. Trump started his Presidency with a feud with the National Park System. Remember when Trump’s biggest lie was that he claimed his inauguration was bigger than Obama’s and then repeated said lie over and over and over again in an effort to make it true. He called on the National Park System to prove his popularity, eventually forcing the National Park System to release this official photo. Trump actually received the photos the day after his inauguration but he doubled down on his lie (as he ALWAYS does), Spicey Spicer even at one point claimed the media had doctored the images.

   

2. On January 20th, the National Park System account went “rogue” and released the photos and before you could say oppression, the Department of Interior had deleted the twitter account. Thankfully, nothing is ever really deleted on the internet and many had captured the original posts. This sparked tweets about Trump and his admin scrubbing the government sites of climate change and other data they don’t like, aka science/facts. Hence, the Alt US National Park Service Twitter account was formed.
3. As Trump’s agenda to dismantle the EPA in favor of BIG Coal and BIG business, to defund science and research, to deny climate change and other scientific facts became more clear, rouge US Agency twitter accounts grew in number daily in the early days of this new oppressive administration. Here is a list of some of those accounts, https://twitter.com/ariherzog/lists/alt-and-rogue/members Pissing off smart folks and arguing against science/facts….well, that used to be ineffective but in this “Post Truth” era, lies dominate. Looking at you FOX.
4. Trump’s decision to give $78,000 to the National Park System, is supposedly earmarked to preserve battle fields, sorry Yellowstone and other parks in need of maintenance. Originally he asked the press to decide where the money went, and changed his mind. Why? Knowing his personality and knowing this donation is insulting to an agency whose proposed budget will leave it on life support, I am calling this as I see it, a vindictive calculated MANipulative move. “”If Donald Trump is actually interested in helping our parks, he should stop trying to slash their budgets to historically low levels,” said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. “America’s parks, and the people and economies they support, need real funding, not a giant fake check. Parks are a good investment and we must invest now if we want them to be around for our kids,” Brune added.”
5. Spicy you can take the “big (referring to physical blown up size, not referring to the value)” check and stick it you know where.

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Resources:

Trump will donate first-quarter salary to National Park Service, White House says,http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-donate-salary-park-service-20170403-story.html

Here are the photos that show Obama’s inauguration crowd was bigger than Trump’s, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/03/06/here-are-the-photos-that-show-obamas-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-than-trumps/?utm_term=.928c1dfb3ae8

National Park Disservice; The Department of Interior took action after a tweet was shared via the National Park Service account unfavorably comparing the attendance at Trump’s inauguration with that at Obama’s, http://www.snopes.com/nps-twitter-account-shut-down/

It’s Not Just The Park Service: ‘Rogue’ Federal Twitter Accounts Multiply, http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/01/27/512007632/its-not-just-the-park-service-rogue-federal-twitter-accounts-multiply

Trump Donates Salary To National Parks Even As He Tries To Cut Interior Department, http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522518472/trump-donates-salary-to-national-parks-even-as-he-tries-to-cut-interior-departme