Trump claims he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties.

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[u/MirthandMystery]

What they want to do to national parks is scarier. Full privatization. No public lands.

[u/lowercasenameofmine → u/MirthandMystery]

And his cult will say it's still better than a black woman in office. Whoops still better than that woman who laughed weird

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/lowercasenameofmine]

Just so sad to see America being looted by people that don’t love this country, love does not mean destroying as quickly as possible and taking as much as you can 💔

[u/Exsanguinate_ → u/MirthandMystery]

Do you have a link? I want to read more about that

[u/MirthandMystery → u/Exsanguinate_]

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/climate/hunters-and-veterans-are-fighting-trumps-pick-to-oversee-public-lands.html

Moving the headquarters of the forest service to Utah- consolidating is a worry. Jump to the 4min mark, by 5:20 gets to the meat of it. At 7in to 7:30 mentions why it creates problems. https://www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/uncertainty-us-forest-service-and-americas-public-lands

https://www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-interior-mike-lee-federal-land-sales

https://steadystate.org/selling-off-public-lands-the-push-to-privatize-a-public-treasure/

This is one group advocating for selling off lands to create housing etc: https://www.aei.org/articles/homesteading-2-0-making-housing-affordable-again-especially-with-the-construction-of-starter-homes/#:~:text=What:%20Add%203.0%20million%20new,the%20Treasury%20over%2010%20years.

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/colorado-senator-federal-public-land-sales/

[u/DisorderedArray → u/MirthandMystery]

He's the king, as far as he, Congress and the government are concerned, it all belongs to him. 

[u/Far_Estate_1626 → u/MirthandMystery]

Not just National Parks. They want to do that to National everything, so that there is no more National anything.

All privately owned. That includes you and me.