
President Donald Trump taken on by unlikely foe: Badass park rangers
Censorship efforts backfire on President Snowflake and team
Kieren McCarthy
Wed 25 Jan 2017 // 23:26 UTC
https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/25/trump_taken_on_by_park_rangers/
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In an extraordinary and seemingly unlikely battle, US President Donald Trump and his transition teams have had their authority challenged by none other than park rangers. On Twitter.
Following a number of efforts by the incoming administration to flex its muscles by ordering federal agencies to go silent, several National Park Service (NPS) Twitter accounts went rogue and started posting facts about climate change.
That led to the White House over-reacting and ordering the deletion of those (factually accurate) tweets, which in turn has resulted in the creation of an alternative NPS account (@AltNatParkSer) calling itself "The Unofficial 'Resistance' team of U.S. National Park Service" that has quickly overtaken the official account in terms of followers.
That account has since posted a series of anti-Trump messages that have been widely pushed over social media and even started becoming their own memes. One directly challenged the president: "Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS. You can take our official twitter, but you'll never take our free time!" At the time of writing, the defiant message has been retweeted over 70,000 times.
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