Trump Admin Orders National Parks To Check Gift Shops For DEI Items

As Ed Scarce reported here , Trump's administration changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday. That tracks for this administration, which is so white it should be called the Whitey McWhiteCracker regime. But now things, of course, have taken another strange turn, with National Parks ordered to check their gift shops for items that support programs like diversity, equity, and inclusion – and remove them.

Interestingly, many of the 63 U.S. National Parks feature names of Native American origin, such as Yosemite, Shenandoah, Zion, and Acadia, highlighting deep ties to ancestral lands, even as the parks themselves sometimes commemorate colonization. But I'm sure Trump's Sharpie can e