Trump goes Ahab in search for rogue Park Service tweeter
This is how the alleged leader of the free world reacts when a federal employee exposes his lies about his size (Inaugural crowd size, that is):
The identity of the person responsible for posting the now infamous side-by-side images of Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s inaugurations to the National Park Service’s Twitter account reportedly caught the attention of the alleged billionaire himself.
CBD News reports:
The retweet was deleted soon after it was posted and the Twitter accounts of the National Park Service and other U.S. Interior Department agencies were briefly shut down. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told CBS News two days later in an email that the White House neither demanded the retweet be taken down, nor ordered the Interior Department accounts to be suspended.
But emails released by the National Park Service in response to a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the new president was “concerned” about the retweet.
“Obviously, this has become a very sensitive issue, especially since the President has gotten directly involved and contacted Acting Director Mike Reynolds concerned about one of the images that was retweeted,” wrote Tim Cash, Chief of Digital Strategy at the National Park Service in a Jan. 21 email to Shaun Cavanaugh, the agency’s Chief Information Security Officer.
Oh, my! Poor Trump’s fee-feez were bruised!
The Freedom of Information Act request also includes a memo detailing the efforts National Park Service staff took to track down the rogue retweeter.
“We traced the IP address used for the two questionable posts to an ISP in the San Bruno, Calif., area and checked all possible NPS social media points of contacts in that area,” a staffer wrote in the briefing.
The agency initially “suspected that this incident was an accidental cross-posting from a personal Twitter account (this has happened on multiple occasions in the past with other NPS social media accounts),” but later became concerned that an account was compromised, according to the memo.
After the retweet and ensuing news coverage of its deletion, the size of the crowd at the inauguration became one of the dominant news stories of Mr. Trump’s first days in office. In Spicer’s first press briefing after the inauguration, he chastised journalists for their coverage before leaving the briefing room without taking any questions.
