Donald Trump's national park tip line flooded with angry messages [View all]
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.
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