National Park Service Apologizes For ‘Mistaken’ Anti-Trump Tweets

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Update 12:00 p.m.: The National Park Service tweeted Saturday morning that they were sorry for retweeting some unflattering tweets about Trump yesterday during inauguration.


Original Story:

Tweeting about crowd size can be pretty controversial.

The Washington Post reported Friday night that the Department of the Interior was ordered to stop tweeting Friday after it’s National Parks Service account retweeted an unflattering photograph comparing Trump’s crowd size to Obama’s in 2009.

According to the Washington Post, the Parks service then received an e-mail to stop tweeting.


Screen shot from the Washington Post’s report before the tweet was taken down.

“All bureaus and the department have been directed by incoming administration to shut down Twitter platforms immediately until further notice,” the e-mail said, according to the Post, which attained it.

But that wasn’t all the the Department of Interior also tweeted about how some key areas of the Obama’s White House website had disappeared following Trump’s inauguration including one section on climate change before the directive arrived.

The Post noted that it was no clear who exactly asked the Department of Interior to stop tweeting. One official who spoke with the Post on the condition of anonymity said that the order was given as a precautionary measure until it could be determined whether the agency had been “errant” or they had been “hacked.”

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