Trump's war with National Parks employees was, shall we say, unpredicted.
After Trump directed several federal agencies, including the EPA, HHS, USDA, and Interior Department, to freeze all communications, social media managers at various National Parks began tweeting out climate statistics and the like:
"Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where the people are free." TR, 5/7/1918
— TR Inaugural Site (@TRInauguralSite) January 25, 2017
2016 was the hottest year on record for the 3rd year in a row. Check out this @NASA & @NOAA report: https://t.co/rLJUC56xqi pic.twitter.com/AKhFzYw6l6
— Golden Gate NPS (@GoldenGateNPS) January 23, 2017
The Times dismissed the outraged reaction online as "unrealistic," but the order seems genuinely alarming, with anonymous career bureaucrats all but promising Politico that they will be working against Trump's policies and leaking what they can to the press.