A U.S. National Park Flipped Trump The Bird & Tweeted Climate Change Facts

The Badlands National Park posted a steam of tweets about the impact of climate change on the environment, despite the fact that Trump’s admin had placed a temporary ban on national parks tweeting after the official National Parks account retweeted a tweet about Trump’s unimpressive inauguration attendance.

They’ve now been deleted.

The Trump administration has also enforced a blackout on the Enivronmental Protection Agency, forbidding the agency from publishing news releases, blog posts or social media updates.

Trump has in the past called climate change a hoax, and has expressed on Twitter that he believes it is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government to make American manufacturing less competitive.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

Many Twitter users praised Badlands National Park, and offered pre-emptive apologies to the social media manager who is almost certainly going to be fired as a result of an order from right up the top.

I salute you, Badlands National Park tweeter who is probably going to get fired but is going out in style. https://t.co/LrcH91IOuJ

— Kate Sheppard (@kate_sheppard) January 24, 2017

We salute you too, buddy. An account claiming to be run by national park employees called AltUSNatParkService is tweeting a message of resistance against censorship.

Did no one tell President Trump about the Streisand Effect?
You silence our colleagues officially, and we will scream when we get home.

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017