Freedom of Information Act<\/a> request from the Sierra Club, which is suing the Department of the Interior over the executive order. The comments were collected between June 2025 and January 2026.<\/p>\nThe comments range from articulate rebuttals to expletive-filled rants, but are almost unanimously critical of the direction the government is taking under Trump. (The acronym \u201cFDT,\u201d which stands for \u201cF*** Donald Trump,\u201d appears more than 4,000 times.<\/p>\n
Visitors also brought receipts\u2014and plenty of sarcasm. Outside\u00a0<\/em>dug through the 35,000 comments and found some of the spiciest.<\/p>\nFor example, one visitor to Arizona\u2019s Grand Canyon mocked the signs reminding visitors to stay hydrated in the desert park.<\/p>\n
\nThere were signs warning me about it being hot and that drinking water can keep me alive. I feel disparaged! What if I want to get dizzy, stumble around, vomit, and die a slow horrible death? It\u2019s my RIGHT as an American to die from my poor choices. How dare you try to protect me? \u2014Grand Canyon National Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAt Palo Alto National Battlefield in Texas, a site marking a key conflict leading up to the Mexican\u2013American War, a park visitor seemed to call out Elon Musk, whose SpaceX Starbase is 25 miles away.<\/p>\n
\nSome idiot next door keeps launching rockets and blowing them up, it\u2019s very annoying and ruins the whole experience. \u2014Palo Alto National Battlefield<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nOne commenter at Joshua Tree National Park in California poked fun at the use of speed signs throughout the park.<\/p>\n
\nThere are numerous signs in the park telling me when to stop and how fast I\u2019m supposed to drive. These signs disparage me and every other American who drives through the park by suggesting that we can\u2019t use our own judgement [sic] to make these decisions. \u2014Joshua Tree National Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIn Idaho\u2019s Craters of the Moon, a park visitor joked that signs requesting visitors to stay off the park\u2019s volcanic spatter cones were \u201cdisparaging.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nA sign at Spatter Cones at Craters of the Moon inappropriately disparages Americans. It implies that Americans are capable of \u2018loving an area to death.\u2019 Americans cannot do that, because we are exceptional. \u2018Walking off trails may be destroying these spatter cones. \u2019 Americans cannot destroy rocks with their feet. This inappropriately disparages Americans. Americans are exceptional. Americans cannot destroy nature. Americans merely conquer nature. \u2014Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAt Kentucky\u2019s Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, one commenter sarcastically questioned the historical accuracy of the park\u2019s information.<\/p>\n
\nThe signage throughout the park is entirely too honest \u2026 Words like slavery, division, and civil war appeared with alarming frequency, harshing the nostalgic buzz I was cultivating from the log cabin and gift shop. I came to the birthplace of Lincoln to feel good about America and our heroic President Trump [\u2026] I suggest replacing all signage with a single plaque that reads, \u2018Lincoln: Perfect Man, Perfect Nation. Also Trump is Perfect. \u2014Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nA visitor to President Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s memorial in D.C. took a similar tack, quipping that the name of the memorial was disparaging to Johnson\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n
\nWhy does the official name of this NPS unit have an acronym instead of LBJ\u2019s full name? I find this to be disparaging of a past American. \u2014Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nA tourist at Wyoming\u2019s Devil\u2019s Tower took aim not just at Trump, but at Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n
\nI saw Doug Burgum and Donald Trump engaged in a Devil\u2019s Tower with Marco Rubio in the center. There isn\u2019t enough bleach in the world to scrub that from my memory. Fire those freaks!! \u2014Devil\u2019s Tower National Monument<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAlcatraz Island, in California\u2019s Bay Area, was home to one of the most infamous prisons in American history, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which closed in 1963. One visitor requested that the NPS reopen it to politicians.<\/p>\n
\nPerhaps you could reopen to house some guests from Washington? \u2014Alcatraz Island<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nA visitor to the C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez monument in California seemed to ask for help with an unusual predicament, then directed that aid be sent to the White House.<\/p>\n
\nIn the spirit of agriculture I now have several pieces of corn shoved *far* up my rectum and I can\u2019t get them out. I can\u2019t go to the hospital. Please send help to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. \u2014C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez National Monument<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nFinally, a tourist at the American Memorial Park, a World War II military memorial in the Northern Mariana Islands, took issue with the absence of the U.S. mascot.<\/p>\n
\nNot enough bald eagles, MORE BALD EAGLES. WHY AM I NOT INSTANTLY GREATED [sic] BY BALD EAGLES. \u2014American Memorial Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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