trump is headed to utah to destroy national monuments...how 'presidential'

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Utah on Monday to announce big cuts to the state’s sprawling wilderness national monuments, a move that is likely to trigger legal challenges from tribes and environmental groups.

Trump’s visit to the state follows a months-long review by the Interior Department that he ordered in April to identify which of 27 monuments designated by past presidents should be rescinded or resized to make way for development.

Unlike national parks that can only be created by an act of Congress, national monuments can be designated unilaterally by presidents under the century-old Antiquities Act, a law meant to protect sacred sites, artifacts and historical objects.

But Trump has said former presidents abused the act by putting unnecessarily big chunks of territory off limits to drilling, mining, grazing, road traffic and other activities – a headwind to his plan to ramp up U.S. energy output.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-monuments/trump-to-shrink-utah-monuments-riling-tribes-and-environmentalists-idUSKBN1DY167


Trump on Monday will call for an 85 percent cut to Utah’s 1.3 million acre Bears Ears National Monument created in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama, and a 50 percent cut to the state’s 1.9 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument created by Bill Clinton in 1996, according to documents published last week by the Washington Post.

[Botany]

1. Why? Obama was for it.

Short sighted and stupid.

[spanone]

2. beyond stupid.... MEAN. he hates Indians.

that's been documented

[Botany]

3. Setting aside the land for the Cuyahoga Valley Park as a multi use area and the 1930s CCC projects .

.... have paid off many times over. Protecting the Grand Staircase Escalante will bring
in millions of $$S for generations.

[unc70]

4. Will he have a photo op in front of ex monument?

[spanone]

5. remember this one? this was to PROTECT monuments....

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/utah-monuments-trump-weir/index.html

[SummerSnow]

6. When he sees all that land, all he sees is possible skyscrapers and golf courses

He thinks it's all a waste of space.

[Sneederbunk]

7. Dotard will not visit monument site. Primary Orrin Hatch!

[smirkymonkey]

8. I fucking hate that guy.