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[Trojita]

http://time.com/4764256/donald-trump-inauguration-photo-national-park-service/

President Donald Trump was "directly involved" in the quest to find the staffer from the National Park Service who retweeted a comparative photo of his inauguration crowd with that of his predecessor, former President Barack Obama.

On the day of Trump's inauguration, the official account of the National Park Service retweeted a photo showing a crowd for Obama's event, compared to a smaller crowd that had gathered for Trump's that day. The retweet was quickly taken down.

According to a report from CBS News, who cited emails about the exchange released through the Freedom of Information Act, Trump contacted acting National Park Services director Mike Reynolds about the tweet.

"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," National Park Services' Chief of Digital Strategy Tim Cash wrote to NPS Chief Information Security Officer Shaun Cavanaugh on January 21, according to CBS News.

The Washington Post first reported on the contact between Reynolds and Trump on January 26, but neither the White House nor the National Park Services confirmed it.CBS News also reports that a staffer at NPS tried to find the person who retweeted the image by tracing IP addresses, and the agency became concerned the account was compromised.

 

[vatstep]

Sad!

 

[Citizen_Insane]

What a petty child

 

[old manatee]

That tweeter is a true patriot.

 

[Common Knowledge]

Protestors should just make giant posters of those pictures and also tweet them at him relentlessly.

 

[Ahasverus]

That sounds illegal. Free speech and all that.

 

[Netherscourge]

Awwwww... did somebody get their feelings hurt?

 

[rjinaz]

This isn't disturbing at all. Nope.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

That sounds illegal. Free speech and all that.

Like that's ever stopped him before

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

I expect this.

 

[Barkley's Justice]

Next executive order: revoke the Freedom of Information Act.

 

[Astral Dog]

Watching his crowd be smaller than Obama's must have been crushing to him

 

[O_Atoll]

The crowd size is dearest to Trump's heart. More than doing his presidential duties.

 

[norm9]

*somecrazysmilingpic.gif*

 

[rpmurphy]

Protecting Trump's feewings are one of the top priorities of this administration.

 

[III-V]

That tweeter is a true patriot.

Indeed. And are we Witness to the most insecure POTUS of all time?

 

[PixelatedBookake]

The President of Petty

 

[Shaanyboi]

He wants to find them and do what exactly? Pee on them?

 

[InsaneTiger]

Terrible! I like Presidents that don't whine and moan about everything.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Indeed. And are we Witness to the most insecure POTUS of all time?

Pretty common personality trait with diet fascists.

 

[Allforce]

This seems like such an easy mystery to solve, how many people could possibly have access to the organization's Twitter account?

I'm not familiar with how Twitter accounts for companies or large organizations work. Do they usually have a ton of staffers with access or is it usually one guy/girl?

 

[~Kinggi~]

Trump is quite literally a child. Nobody ever needs to see beyond how he reacted in that recent interview with CBS (i think) where he was asked about his wiretap bullshit, then ended the interview, and sat at his desk pretending to look at papers, while the cameraman just filmed him sitting there, like a fucking baby ignoring the fact he had a crew and newsman there on a major network.

 

[SugarDave]

I can't say I'm surprised but it's still worthy of a drawn out fuuuuuucking 'ell.

 

[rjinaz]

Like that's ever stopped him before

The person will just be added to the list, for when it becomes illegal to publicly disagree with Trump.

 

[norm9]

This is absolute proof that people are stupid, in general (hand waving motion to encompass everyone).

 

[Capra]

He wants to find them and do what exactly? Pee on them?

Shit on their car?

 

[SwiftDeath]

This is great because now we all know what to tweet at Trump at 3am in the morning for the next 10 years

 

[Escape Goat]

As sad as it is I wouldn't call that being obsessed.

 

[NYR]

I really just don't see him making it to 2020 for a re-election bid. I know - it's an incredulous claim to make but every day I have trouble believing he really wants to be President and he won't do something that forever shakes the nation to just say - "yeah, that's enough out of you".

 

[Kevtones]

What scares me about Trump is that I think he'll legitimately try to keep the Presidency 'in the family'.

 

[theWB27]

They loved the black dude more. It pains him to know obama is better.


Kevtones....cmon with that.

 

[Trojita]

As sad as it is I wouldn't call that being obsessed.

A President directly involved with finding one employee of a sub agency isn't obsessed?

 

[norm9]

Look, I think we can all agree Ivanka would look hot as the president.

 

[Luminaire]

All he had to do was check the exif data in the picture to find out exactly where he lived.

 

[TAJ]

Look, I think we can all agree Ivanka would look hot as the president.

She's already starting to look worn. And the hate that will come her way the next few years won't help.
The actual stress of the job after a life with no adversity would make her look like a deadite in one term.

 

[discospider]

What a cuck

 

[Tagg9]

Look, I think we can all agree Ivanka would look hot as the president.

WTF has this got to do with anything?!

 

[Escape Goat]

A President directly involved with finding one employee of a sub agency isn't obsessed?

No?

 

[TemplaerDude]

Ha ha! Your President is a whiny baby!

 

[theWB27]

She's already starting to look worn. And the hate that will come her way the next few years won't help.

Who knew doing nothing could be so hard

 

[Zomba13]

No?

A President that won't shut up about inauguration and voter numbers? Who goes to great lengths to lie about how much bigger than anything else they were? You don't think he's obsessed? Not even a little?

 

[Zolo]

The crowd size is dearest to Trump's heart. More than doing his presidential duties.

Reports said this legitimately made him more angry than the failing healthcare bill.

 

[adamsappel]

I had been assuming the photo on the left was simply a little further back to show the crowd at the Washington Monument, but looking closer I see that Trump's crowd peters out half-way back at the Smithsonian Castle. And you could pack them in even tighter!

What a sad, silly little man he is.

 

[Korigama]

A thoroughly pathetic excuse for a man.

 

[Alchemy]

Gosh its almost like Trump is completely pathetic. Who coulda guessed

 

[jph139]

Man, a decade or two from now, when this is all in the history books... the tell-alls and memoirs and articles are gonna be something else.

Assuming we're all still alive in 20 years, naturally.

 

[F0rneus]

This fucking psycho manchild needs to go. Impeach that asshole. Now.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

This gonna be an I am Spartacus moment?

 

[norm9]

WTF has this got to do with anything?!

I prefer my president looking good.

 

[Lois_Lane]

No?

So if the CEO of Pepsi personally hunted down the janitor who took his coffee, you wouldn't think that was weird?