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UPDATED: Trump Administration Orders Interior Department To Shut Down Twitter Accounts

Published Date

January 20, 2017

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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Comments

Submitted by Mary Sohl on January 20, 2017 - 9:13pm.

Resist and do all we can to get him impeached.


Submitted by Rick B. on January 20, 2017 - 9:41pm.

That thin-skinned ego is going to be a problem.


Submitted by Loy Turns on January 20, 2017 - 9:57pm.

This is something a tyrant does.


Submitted by Lee Dalton on January 20, 2017 - 10:21pm.

Why is this not a surprise?

I'll bet a burger that a day will soon come when some terrible news reporter will ask DJT why some of the "promises" made in today's harangue have not been fulfilled and the answer will be "I never said that!"

Then, when the terrible news reporter plays the tape of the speech, we will hear, "That's unfair!  The media is picking on me!  It's Fake News!"

I can't remember any time since the days of George Wallace and a few others like him when we heard similar speeches of such disgusting content.

It was nauseating.

 


Submitted by Rick B. on January 20, 2017 - 10:46pm.

The ongoing revisionist history has begun.

 

Time to brush up on your Newspeak  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Newspeak_words


Submitted by Fred on January 20, 2017 - 11:09pm.

Stop being stupid and grow up. The people of this country elected him and he is now the president. Its much better than the reckless Obama letting Gito murders of of jail. Or giving a pardon to that tranny.


Submitted by edmond macgregor on January 21, 2017 - 6:02am.

Give the president a chance, wait awhile before criticizing him and stop the childish whining because you didn't get your way.


Submitted by beachdumb on January 21, 2017 - 6:18am.

The end of fake news from our government, especially all the climate change lies. Thank goodness we will be returning our government back to reality. 

I live close enough to have gone inauguration and wanted to but choose to keep my family safe from liberals/progressives protesters lighting fires and destroying the city. 


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