Heres exhibit #2371237 on why we can't have nice things and can't trust the media;
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/10/27/remember-antiquities-act/Quote
Remember the Antiquities Act Trump despised when he shrank Utah’s Grand Staircase and Bears Ears? Well, he just used that law to create a monument.
Look at the complete lack of nuance and comprehension in an effort to somehow attack Trump no matter how good a thing he does.
When Obama left office, he abused the antiquities act to turn vast oil reserves in Utah and the Arctic into national monuments to block them from oil drilling, motivated by conservationism / global warming but wrapped around ostensible holy native sites. Donald Trump took great pains to carefully restrict the monument declarations to just the native sites while un-declaring the rest. Rather than simply negate Obama's proclamation and set a precedent for a new presidential power to reverse monuments entirely, he used an establish power to trim monuments after lengthy deliberative review by the interior. At no point was Trump opposed to the Antiquities Act in and of itself, but to the way it was being abused by Obama to conduct economic policy instead of monuments.
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“Past administrations have severely abused the purpose, spirit and intent of the century-old law known as the Antiquities Act,” Trump then declared at the Utah Capitol, adding that, “These abuses of the Antiquities Act give enormous power to faraway bureaucrats at the expense of the people who actually live here, work here, and make this place their home.”
Today Donald Trump has declared Camp Nelson to be a national monument in remembrance of african-american union troops who fought in the civil war. Precisely the kind of intended usage of the antiquities act. It doesn't seal off vast swathes of land, it doesn't have any economic impact. Its 525 acres, not the millions in obama's declarations. It has the support instead of opposition of local, state and federal government. Its a well defined monument to a significant cause, with no nebulous 'all land everywhere is holy' beliefs.
So what we have is an example of Trump both acting consistently, appropriately and commendably with his antiquities act. He's show respect to black civil war soldiers. He's unfucking the monuments Obama installed as a backdoor conservationism. And yet the media and liberal critics try to paint this as hypocritical and wrong. They would prefer he didn't make monuments for black troops.
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