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Trump's face on new national park passes outrages conservationists
SF Gate ^ | November 25, 2025 | By Amanda Heidt

Posted on 11/27/2025 3:30:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you ask Bill Wade, executive director for the Association of National Park Rangers, the new design may not be a selling point. “Given the damage that the Trump administration has done to America’s National Parks and their employees, I would not purchase one of these passes with his image on it,” he told SFGATE. “I would pay separately at each park to help that park overcome the damage.”


so............................we get them to pay more. Ingenious.


21 posted on 11/27/2025 6:22:01 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Wuli

The foreign visitors pay more thing is hilarious, though. In my travels only the most Third World, backward and poor countries do that.


22 posted on 11/27/2025 6:23:42 AM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

It sounds like the “park ranger” lefties need purged very badly. Fire at least 1/2 of them to start. If anyone there complains...fire them.


23 posted on 11/27/2025 6:33:28 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: lodi90

“The foreign visitors pay more thing is hilarious, though”

I agree. I think Trump - in the absence of real budget cutting - is often looking for revenue in wrong places.


24 posted on 11/27/2025 6:37:30 AM PST by Wuli ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So it’s a ‘mock up’ of the new design, is it actually the approved new design or something put out by one of the communists still polluting our government?


25 posted on 11/27/2025 6:42:39 AM PST by Mastador1
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26 posted on 11/27/2025 6:43:00 AM PST by Theoria
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To: Wuli

The point is not revenue but rather retribution


27 posted on 11/27/2025 6:43:06 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It should. I hate it when states have big signs on their highways promoting their governors.

Trump’s risk is overexposure, not underexposure.


28 posted on 11/27/2025 6:45:59 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Put your money where your mouth is, TDS conservationists. Pay full fare to enter the parks instead of the annual pass.

They won’t.

EC


29 posted on 11/27/2025 6:53:00 AM PST by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: bert

Blaming tourists for dumb things their governments do is just dumb. What you want to do is give tourists a better face of ourselves than their government portrays of us.


30 posted on 11/27/2025 7:40:44 AM PST by Wuli ( )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Outraged libs? Gee, that's never happened before. /rimshot

31 posted on 11/27/2025 9:53:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: Nervous Tick
There’s a German word for it...


32 posted on 11/27/2025 9:55:39 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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