Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for MLK day

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Saturday, Dec. 06, 2025 Saturday, Dec. 06, 2025 at 9:35:31am PST

Dear Orange Leader Day must be celebrated as US official history gets whitewashed.

In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to the National Park Service website.

Previously, the National Park Service included these two federal holidays among its free-entry days for around 100 park sites.

National parks ordered to check gift shops for DEI-type items

Federally recognized in 2021 under the Biden Administration, Juneteenth has been celebrated for more than a century and a half. The day commemorates the final end of slavery in Confederate states just after the end of the Civil War.

The NPS also added more free-admission days for next year – calling them "patriotic fee-free days" – such as Trump's birthday on June 14, July 4th weekend and the 110th Birthday of NPS.

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Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site. @Katmarwong https://t.co/BH8gC77XT0
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 6, 2025

S.O. 3416 calls for ending “all actions related to ‘illegal and immoral discrimination’ programs, including DEI ... (collectively, ‘equity-related') mandates, policies, preferences, and activities in the (Interior) Department.” It was issued in January, on the heels of a larger executive order by President Donald Trump focusing on DEI across the federal government.

In March, Trump issued another order, calling on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to take action “to ensure that all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times), and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.” Burgum followed suit with his own order in May and weeks later, visitors at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio reported seeing signs asking them to flag anything that could be disparaging toward America or U.S. history.

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Amid Trump's anti-DEI push the National Parks Service rewrites the history of the Underground Railroad...
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— Jesse Elin Browne (@jesseelinbrowne.bsky.social) Apr 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM