--- title: National Parks Appear to Defy Donald Trump on Twitter description: Other Twitter accounts associated with National Parks Service appear to have joined in the resistance canonical: https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-25T23:56:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T07:14:46.604Z article:section: Politics og:title: Two More National Parks Appear to Defy Donald Trump on Twitter og:description: Other National Park Twitter accounts appear to have joined in the resistance og:url: https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt148581956c48b64c/6988b74ecf40a82741c46355/death-valley-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Death Valley og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Two More National Parks Appear to Defy Donald Trump on Twitter twitter:description: Other National Park Twitter accounts appear to have joined in the resistance twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt148581956c48b64c/6988b74ecf40a82741c46355/death-valley-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 00:44 video:published: 2017-01-26 section: politics topics: National Park Service, social media, climate change, Japanese American internment, government communications, resistance accounts, Trump administration genre: news report tones: critical, informative, pointed, urgent emotions: curiosity (medium), concern (medium), defiance (low) sentiment: neutral audience: news readers, politically engaged citizens, environmental advocates, social media users people: Donald Trump organizations: Badlands National Park, Death Valley National Park, Redwood National and State Parks, National Park Service, Alt-US-Snap Park Service products: Twitter content_suitability: politics [00:00-00:44]; war [00:12-00:22] transcript_source: automatic transcription transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # Two More National Parks Appear to Defy Donald Trump on Twitter > Sponsored content. 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More National Parks appear to be breaking with President Trump’s administration on social media._ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary The video reports that several National Park accounts are breaking with the Trump administration on social media. It describes Badlands National Park's deleted tweets sharing climate change facts, followed by posts from Death Valley and Redwood National and State Parks. It also notes an unaffiliated account that gained over 700,000 followers by calling itself the NPS's unofficial resistance team. ## Key points - Other accounts connected to the National Park Service have started taking part after Badlands National Park's now deleted tweets shared climate change facts. (00:04) - Death Valley National Parks account shared an image of a Japanese American man interned during World War II. (00:12) - Death Valley's post noted that the park hosted 65 internees during the war. (00:17) - The official Redwood National and State Parks account posted a tweet on the topic. (00:22) - The video states that these tweets do not directly reference Trump's stances. (00:32) - An unaffiliated account, Alt-US-Snap Park Service, has garnered more than 700,000 followers. (00:36) - The unaffiliated account dubbed itself the NPS's unofficial resistance team. (00:41) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:12] Badlands and climate change tweets. National Park accounts break with the administration, starting with Badlands' deleted climate change tweets. - [00:12 to 00:25] Death Valley and Redwood posts. Death Valley shares a WWII internment image, and Redwood National and State Parks posts a tweet. - [00:25 to 00:44] Unaffiliated resistance account. An unaffiliated account calling itself the NPS's unofficial resistance team gains a large following. ## Key quotes - [00:04] interviewer: "After Badlands National Parks' now deleted tweets shared climate change facts, other accounts" - [00:12] interviewer: "Death Valley National Parks account shared an image of a Japanese American man interned" - [00:36] interviewer: "an unaffiliated account, Alt-US-Snap Park Service has garnered more than 700,000 followers after dubbing itself" - [00:41] interviewer: "the NPS's unofficial resistance team." ## Questions this video answers - Which National Park accounts are breaking with the Trump administration on social media? [00:04] - What did the Badlands National Park tweets that were later deleted say? [00:04] - What did the Death Valley National Parks account post about? [00:12] - How many internees did Death Valley host during the war? [00:17] - What is the unofficial resistance team account, and how many followers has it gained? [00:36] ## Content suitability - politics [00:00-00:44]: Coverage of the presidential administration and its relationship with government agency social media accounts. - war [00:12-00:22]: Refers to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 25, 2017 11:56 PM UTC More National Parks appear to be breaking with President Trump’s administration on social media. by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 25, 2017 11:56 PM UTC After the Badlands National Park Twitter account [went rogue](http://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/) on Tuesday by posting — and then deleting — several climate change facts that may [contradict](http://time.com/4581681/donald-trump-climate-change-nasa/) the beliefs of President Donald Trump’s administration, other Twitter accounts associated with National Parks Service appeared to join in the resistance. A person behind the Twitter account at Death Valley National Park shared a photo of a Japanese-American man interned at Death Valley during World War II. > [](https://twitter.com/DeathValleyNPS/status/824293528264118272) According to another tweet, Death Valley hosted 65 internees during World War II. > [](https://twitter.com/DeathValleyNPS/status/824273025285705730) And the official account for Redwood National and State Parks tweeted about climate change on Wednesday. > [](https://twitter.com/RedwoodNPS/status/824311863362011136) The tweets do not explicitly call out Trump for his stances on [climate change](http://time.com/4637017/ryan-zinke-climate-change-confirmation-hearing/) and new proposals for restricting primarily [Muslim immigrants](http://time.com/4648516/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/) from the U.S. But they’re not shying away from posting facts. The White House on Wednesday announced a mandate saying that studies or data from the Environmental Protection Agency must be [reviewed by political appointees](http://time.com/4649472/donald-trump-epa-study-restrictions/?xid=homepage) before being released to the public. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday denied that the Trump administration ordered [Badlands National Park](http://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/) take down the tweets, although the official account went viral following stop-and-start [“gag orders”](http://time.com/4648607/nps-national-park-service-twitter-donald-trump/) from Trump on the Twitter accounts of National Parks. An unofficial Twitter account for NPS, [“AltUSNatParkService,”](https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer) popped up Tuesday night, quickly amassing nearly 700,000 followers. Billing itself the unofficial “Resistance” team of the NPS, the account has tweeted several [climate change facts](http://time.com/4648607/nps-national-park-service-twitter-donald-trump/) and calls for recognizing scientific claims. > [](https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer/status/824103512116183040) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/"},"headline":"Two More National Parks Appear to Defy Donald Trump on Twitter","datePublished":"2017-01-25T23:56:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-07T07:14:46.604Z","description":"Other Twitter accounts associated with National Parks Service appear to have joined in the resistance","url":"https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/","keywords":["climate change","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt148581956c48b64c/6988b74ecf40a82741c46355/death-valley-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt148581956c48b64c/6988b74ecf40a82741c46355/death-valley-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Death Valley","caption":"Death Valley","creditText":"Robert Alexander—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/climate-change/","name":"climate change"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/","name":"Two More National Parks Appear to Defy Donald Trump on Twitter"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"National Parks Going Rogue","description":"More National Parks appear to be breaking with President Trump’s administration on social media.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/pWyG6qkK/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-01-26T14:59:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/pWyG6qkK.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/","duration":"PT44S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```