Anger as National Parks grant free access on Trump's birthday -- and end it for MLK day [View all]
Source: Raw Story
December 6, 2025 5:51AM ET
“Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?” That’s what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE, which reported Thursday on the National Park Service’s recently announced free admission days for 2026.
“That has become a day of service throughout the country as well as celebrating an American hero who has several park units celebrating his legacy,” Schmidt noted of the federal holiday honoring Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. each January.
In addition to MLK Day, three other previously free days were left off the US Department of the Interior’s announcement last week about “resident-only patriotic fee-free days.” Visitors will now have to pay park fees on National Public Lands Day, the anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act—which President Donald Trump signed in 2020—and Juneteenth.
In 2021, Congress passed and then-President Joe Biden signed legislation designating Juneteenth as a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. After returning to the White House in January, Trump declined to recognize it on this past June 19.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/alternet-posts/national-parks-trump-2674374939/
Link to SFGATE article - National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
As I say over and over - call them out as racists to their faces. It's the only thing they recoil about.
They thrive on insulting women and embrace being called "sexists", brag about being homophobes and transphobes when it comes to their hatred of LGBTQ people.
But call them "racists" and they'll squeal like little piggies.
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