National Park Service banned from tweeting after anti-Trump posts

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UPDATE: The National Park Service's Twitter privileges have been suspended by its Washington support office, according to a report by Gizmodo.

According to an internal email obtained by Gizmodo, the National Park Service must "immediately cease use of government Twitter accounts until further notice."



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It seems the official tweeter for the National Park Service is not a fan of the new President Donald Trump.

As the new POTUS was being inaugurated, the NPS poster went bigly rogue, retweeting two tweets: one seemingly critical of the inauguration and the other of one of Trump's first actions as president.

The first was an Esquire article about the "scrubbing" of the civil rights, healthcare, and climate change pages from the White House's official website, and the second was a retweet of a couple photos from New York Times correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum, which compared the inauguration crowds from Obama's 2009 inauguration and from Trump's inauguration Friday morning.

The tweets stayed online for a significant amount of time, but as of 3 p.m. they had been taken down.

President Trump is not an explicit believer of global warming, although his Interior Secretary nominee, Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), has admitted that humans "influence" climate change. Zinke has also said that the government should make it a priority to work on backlogged projects in national parks.

Nevertheless, there is concern that Zinke will open up the national parks for "multiple use," like, for example, allowing for the drilling of oil in addition to tourism and preservation.