Unofficial National Park Service Twitter Fires Off At President Trump
CBS Local - Growing tension between the National Park Service and President Donald Trump has resulted in an unofficial NPS 'Resistance Team' on Twitter.
A new account has popped up: @AltNatParkSer. In its bio, it describes the account as "The Unofficial 'Resistance' team of U.S. National Park Service. Not taxpayer subsidised! Come for rugged scenery, fossil beds, 89 million acres of landscape. It's unclear if the managers of the account work for the NPS.
Their main bone to pick is in regards to global warming.
Its handle is @AltUSNatParkService and has so far written a few aggressive tweets.
Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS.
— NOT ALT WORLD (@NotAltWorld) January 25, 2017
You can take our official twitter, but you'll never take our free time!
President Trump will build a wall to keep people out of the US, & piplines to make sure oil destroys our nature reserves. #resist #Keystone
— NOT ALT WORLD (@NotAltWorld) January 25, 2017
What do we want?
— NOT ALT WORLD (@NotAltWorld) January 25, 2017
Peer-reviewed Science
When do we want it?
Yesterday, please!
The movement on Twitter first began when the NPS was forced to shut down its Twitter activity temporarily after retweeting two tweets — one about the attendance of Trump's inauguration and the other about the disappearance of some pages on WhiteHouse.gov.
Also this week, its been reported that the Trump administration instituted a temporary media blackout at the EPA. Also, the Badlands National Park in South Dakota tweeted out multiple facts about climate change. These tweets were later deleted.
At time of writing, @AltNatParkSer followers has exploded to 377,000.