Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors

Exclusive: Public comments show that a crackdown on signs disparaging' Americans is not popular

As part of his administration's war on woke", Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything negative" about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a world view without inconvenient historical facts, comments submitted from national parks and seen by the Guardian show.

Notices have been erected at every National Park Service (NPS) site, which spans 433 national parks, monuments and battlefields, following an order from May entitled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History", issued by Trump's department of the interior. The president had demanded a crackdown on any material that inappropriately disparages Americans".