Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.

The New York Times ^ | July 22, 2025, 11:41 a.m. ET | Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump.

At Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, the Trump administration is set to review, and possibly remove or alter, signs about how climate change is causing sea levels to rise.

At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the administration will soon decide whether to take down exhibits on the brutality of slavery.

And at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in Florida, Trump officials are scrutinizing language about the imprisonment of Native Americans inside the Spanish stone fortress.

According to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times, employees of the National Park Service have flagged descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites for review in connection with President Trump’s directive to remove or cover up materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans.”

In an executive order in March, the president instructed the Park Service to review plaques, films and other materials presented to visitors at 433 sites around the country, with the aim of ensuring they emphasize the “progress of the American people” and the “grandeur of the American landscape.”

Employees had until last week to flag materials that could be changed or deleted, and the Trump administration said it would remove all “inappropriate” content by Sept. 17, according to the internal agency documents. The public also has been asked to submit potential changes.

The directive on national parks is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to promote a more positive view of the nation’s history. In his executive order, the president also took aim at the Smithsonian Institution, claiming that it had promoted “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”

[Savage Beast]

Great! Trump just gets better and better and better!

[lightman]

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[BFW]

OMG!!!!!!

The poor pony's they are drowned..............!!!!!!!!

Ah gonna be drowned by evil HImetrangee......

I know we used dei to hire the under qualified right color but when did we hire preteens to write plaques???

[Vigilanteman]

A couple of years ago, I visited the Fort Larned Historical Site in south central Kansas. It is one of the least visited and best preserved sites in the national park system.

A ranch family purchased the site intact from the government shortly after the fort was closed and made very limited modifications. It stayed in the family for just under a century before it was donated to the National Park Service.

As a result, it is not only remarkably intact in the original, but the visitor center's film hasn't been updated since the mid 1970s. It was remarkably balanced to the extent that I felt it could serve as a model for other National Parks.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

How about just posting American history, the good, the bad and the ugly, rather than just one way (PC) or the other (grandeur)?

And as for ugly, make it the whole ugly (Indian tribes attacking each other or white settlers, the POW camp for Confederate soldiers in Maryland, Antifa attacks on federal courthouses, etc.)?

[DesertRhino]

Thanks!

[wardaddy]

Institutional control of America
Don’t go to oak alley plantation in south Louisiana unless u want to be aggravated
South haters here will like it though
I challenged em politely a bit

The slave cabin they derided as so horrible was nicer than my g grandmothers in smith county miss

Hell I could live in it now