Trump bans ‘negative’ signage at national parks, asks visitors to snitch

In his current war against “Woke”, President Trump instructed the National Park Service to rub any language he considered negative, non -patriotic or striking “an inappropriate partisan ideology” of the signs and presentations that visitors encounter in national parks and historic sites.

Instead, its administration ordered national parks and hundreds of other monuments and museums supervised by the Department of the Interior to ensure that all their signaling reminds the Americans “our extraordinary heritage, our constant progress to become a more perfect union, and an unrivaled record to advance freedom, prosperity and human development”.

These walking orders, which entered into force at the end of last week, left Trump’s adversaries and the defenders of breathlessness of hating incredulity, wondering how the employees of the park are supposed to put a sunny turn on the monuments recognizing the slavery and the laws of Jim Crow. And how they will stimulate the history of Americans of Japanese origin sent in incarceration camps during the Second World War with an “unrivaled record to advance freedom”.

On the national historic site of Manzanar, a dusty camp in the high desert of East California, one of the 10 camps where more than 120,000 Japanese American civilians were imprisoned in the early 1940s, the employees set up a required opinion describing the changes last week.

Like all these opinions across the country, it includes a QR code that visitors can use to report all the signs they see who are “negative on past or alive Americans or do not emphasize the beauty, size and abundance of landscapes”.

An identical sign is in place at the national monument of Cesar E. Chavez in Kern County, a tribute to the fight to ensure better wages and safer working conditions for immigrant agricultural workers. These signs cross the sprawling system, which includes the national monument to Fort Sumter, where the Confederates fired the first fire from the civil war; National historical site of the Ford theater in Washington, DC, where Abraham Lincoln was murdered; and Martin Luther King National Historic Park, Jr.

So, nothing negative in John Wilkes Booth or James Earl Ray?

In response to an email asking for comments, a spokesperson for the National Park Service did not answer questions about specific parks or monuments, claiming that only the modifications would be made “if necessary”.

The whole is “Flabbergasting,” said Dennis Arguelles, director of southern California for the National Parks Conservation Assn for non -profit. “These stories may not be flattering for American heritage, but they are an integral part of our history.

“If we lose these stories, then we are in danger of repeating some of these errors,” said Arguelles.

Trump titled his March 27 Executive Decree Obligning federal writers to look at the right side “restoring the truth and mental health to American history”. He specifically asked the interior department to scrutinize all the signs implemented since January 2020 – the start of the Biden administration – for a language that perpetuates “a false reconstruction” of American history.

Trump called signs that “undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by throwing its founding principles and its historic stages in a negative light”.

He specifically cited the national historic park in Philadelphia and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, by bowing to what he described as the zeal of the previous administration to launch “the unequaled heritage of our nation to advance freedom, individual rights and human happiness” as “intrinsically racist, sexist, oppressive or not irremediable”.

His solution? Order federal employees and historians to rewrite “revisionist” history with a language that gives off patriotism.

“Everything seems quite Orwellian,” said Kimbrough Moore, a rock climber and author of the Yosemite National Park guide. After the news of the imminent changes began to circulate in the circles of the park, he published Instagram A panel he saw in the toilets of the Porcupine Flat campsite in the middle of the park.

In front of the omnipresent brand in all the bathrooms in the park which indicate: “Please do not put waste in the toilet, it is extremely difficult to remove”, someone added a sign that reads as follows: “Please do not put garbage in the White House. It is extremely difficult to withdraw.

As expected, the position has become viral, proving what potential censors have known for centuries: police language is a disorderly company and can be difficult to control in a free society.

“Even poop can be a place of resistance,” wrote Moore.