Trump’s Birthday Added To National Park Free-Entry Days After Dropping MLK Day And Juneteenth
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The changes come amid an anti-DEI overhaul of the National Park Service.
The Trump administration removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from next year’s schedule of free entrance days for national parks, then added President Donald Trump’s birthday, which happens to fall on Flag Day, on June 14.
The Department of the Interior announced the overhaul to the now “resident-only patriotic fee-free days” last month, adding new dates, including the Fourth of July weekend and President Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday, but removing other days celebrating the department, such as the Bureau of Land Management’s birthday.
As the announcement notes, the fee-free days will apply only to U.S. citizens and residents. Nonresidents will have to pay, with some parks charging an additional $100 for each person over the age of 16.
While both MLK Day and Juneteenth have been included in the free days for at least the past two years, the changes come amid the Trump administration’s broader agenda to eliminate DEI initiatives.
Earlier this year, on Juneteenth, Trump launched a rant against the holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S., complaining that Americans have “too many non-working holidays.”
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