Leaked Government Database Shows Trump Administration Flagging National Parks For Being Too Historically Accurate

The Trump administration has flagged hundreds of historically meticulous materials astatine nationalist parks astir nan state to make judge they comply pinch a presidential order that forbids “inappropriately” disparaging past and coming Americans, according to a leaked database from authorities workers, who declare nan files show nan White House “censoring subject and history.”

A group that said they were “civil servants connected nan beforehand lines” posted nan files online connected Monday anonymously, sharing astir 900 incidents wherever managers and different parks unit submitted questions astir whether humanities signs and gift shop items complied pinch Trump’s 2025 bid to “restore truth and sanity to American history.”

In 1 incident, personification tied to nan parkland encompassing nan White House raised questions astir materials that read, “The usage of enslaved labour to build nan location of nan President of nan United States-often seen arsenic a awesome of democracy-illuminates our country's conflicted narration pinch nan institution of slavery and nan ideals of state and equality promised successful America's founding documents.”

“Needs reappraisal to measure if connection contains disparaging content,” nan personification wrote.

Another, astatine Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, asks for reappraisal astir materials describing nan use of nan Kilauea Military Camp arsenic portion of nan mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.

Others definitive interest that materials sold successful parkland gift shops could tally afoul of nan Trump administration, which has besides kicked disconnected a sweeping reappraisal of Smithsonian-affiliated museums and authorities websites to guarantee its peculiar type of history is reflected.

One introduction successful nan database catalogues imaginable violations astatine nan Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument successful nan capital.

“A fewer are books astir nan suffrage activity and immoderate of nan much extremist things they did and respective are antagonistic to President [Woodrow] Wilson, who opposed nan movement,” nan introduction reads. “5 are books, nan others are pins, magnets, mugs, etc.”

The Washington Post, which first reported connected nan leak, confirmed nan data’s authenticity pinch existent national employees.

The individuals who posted nan information claimed nan files show a wide effort to rewrite history successful bid to warrant early abuses.

“Dismantling trusted sources of subject and history makes their schedule of lies easier,” a connection alongside nan database reads. “Profiting from ember and lipid is simply a batch easier if nan impacts of fossil fuels are censored astatine sites for illustration Muir Woods, Glacier, Acadia, and Everglades. It's easier to illegally detain group if we hide nan existent stories of Japanese-American incarceration successful World War II, told astatine nationalist parkland sites for illustration Manzanar and Minidoka and Amache and Tule Lake and Honouliuli.”

The Independent has contacted nan White House and nan Department of nan Interior, which oversees nan National Park Service, for comment.

Critics of nan president’s humanities efforts, which person often progressive scaling backmost descriptions of nan history of racism and oppression successful America, person compared nan White House run to thing retired of an authoritarian regime.

“As if nan Ministry of Truth successful George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, pinch its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to find whether nan national authorities has nan powerfulness it claims — to dissemble and disassemble humanities truths erstwhile it has immoderate domain complete humanities facts,” a national judge wrote past period successful a lawsuit complete nan removal of materials astir nan history of slavery astatine nan President’s House, nan first statesmanlike residence, successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The materials were ordered to beryllium returned to nan site, while nan Trump management has appealed.