Editor's note: This updates with apparent cause for the order to halt Twitter feeds.
A few national park Twitter accounts, at least, went silent Friday afternoon after the newly installed Trump administration ordered the Interior Department to idle its accounts.
"... All bureaus and the department have been directed by incoming administration to shut down Twitter platforms immediately until further notice," read a notice that went out across the National Park System on Friday.
President Trump, of course, is famous for using his Twitter account at all times of the day.
The issue behind the order was apparently an unflattering retweet the National Park Service made comparing crowds at President Obama's 2009 inauguaration and Trump's inauguration. The photos were telling: gaps in the crowds for Trump's inauguration, and a National Mall practically bursting at the seams for Obama's.
Not all parks seemed to get the message, though, as a number of parks were still posting tweets Friday evening.
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Ohh...more "edumakation" from purveyers of fake news.. Did you even take a collegiate course in your life, Beachy? I'd be surprised if you have. Sorry, but unlike you, i'd do a little more research before promoting "REALclimatechange" as if it were the authoritative messiah of facts.
you clearly don't understand what fake news means
Neophytes now running NPS need to read Machiavelli, "Never wound the king."
This is the end of free speech as we know it. It's not coming - it's already here!
The Fuhrer was offended. Thank you
I saw this morning the new White House spokeswhore ws chastizing the press corps for reporting on the meager attendance at the inaugural, and for having the audacity to compare it to the millions who showed up for President Obama.
I can't wait to hear how he, and his ilk, try to minimize the worldwide women's marches today.
Trump is a NEW YORKER! There's definitely the "Syndrome" that comes from living there, and when you live in a world that is a sea of concrete, where it's constantly filthy, intensly noisy at all hours including 3AM at night, where the rivers are streets are so polluted that a nauseating smell lingers in the air, where it's a flood of people in every direction like ant's trapped in a childs antfarm, where the hustle and bustle is so intense that it creates a populace where people seem uptight, angry, and a bit unfriendly - well, you get a culture that permeates from this type of lifestyle and acts just like Trump..
Don't get me wrong, NYC is one of the most cultured cities on the planet, and there are many that come out of there that dont act this way... but he's a New Yorker to the core. It's so noisy, and so cluttered there that it drives a lot of people that have lived there most of their lives to become boisterous annoying narcissits that demand everyone else worship and respects them. And when they are outside of NYC, they'll realize that it doesn't exactly work that way, and some can't handle that and start to lose control... It's always funny meeting the "transplants" that come from there but were obviously never lived outside of that bubble before. It gets popped quickly, or else they don't adapt right, and they wonder why they become alienated. And that maze is so big, that occasionally the ants do escape.
I had a college roomate from "THE CITY" and he always had this mentality that people should worship him because he was from NYC. And reality was in small town PA, no one cared he was from there. After a while, he was like a fish out of water, and it was evident he wasn't very happy. Trump is going to find that middle America will eventually revolt against this mentality. At first they were enamored by his rhetoric, but give it some time, and they'll tire of it quickly.
Trump stated his cabinet has the "highest IQ" in American history.. And I think the facts on that are very much open and not exactly accurate. But whatever.. . I just pass rhetoric like that off as "NYC Syndrome". The skin on that apple is always freaking thin..
The government employee does not make negative public comments about the Commander and Chief without some reprecussions. The twit that tweeted is lucky they still have a job.