Obama Celebrates His Newest Monuments by Tweeting out Pictures of the Wrong National Park
The White House took to Twitter Wednesday to promote President Barack Obama’s latest monument designations in the Western U.S., but its tweet had a picture of a completely different national park.
Obama created the Bears Ears and Gold Butte national monuments, but it’s Wednesday tweet included a picture of the Three Gossips at Arches National Park that was created in 1929.
Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch’s staff noticed the mistake and unleashed a storm of tweets criticizing the Obama administration’s error. Hatch is not a fan of Obama’s unilateral creation of national monuments in Utah and Nevada.
If you're going to take 1.3M acres of Utah land, at least use the right photo. This is Arches not #BearsEars. #utpol https://t.co/F6iIKEsegE
— Senator Hatch Office (@SenOrrinHatch) December 29, 2016
Arches National Park was redesignated as a national park in 1971 and is about a two-and-a-half hour drive to the newly created Bears Ears National Monument, but the two federal parks have very distinct geological features.
Area pictured: the Three Gossips, in Arches. Not at all a part of the proposed #BearsEars monument. #utpol https://t.co/F6iIKEsegE
— Senator Hatch Office (@SenOrrinHatch) December 29, 2016
Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz joined in mocking the White House for using the wrong picture to announce the creation of Bears Ears National Monument.
Classic. @WhiteHouse pic is Arches not monuments. Couldn't find a pic of Bears Ears & doesn't even know where it is. #WorstPresidentEver https://t.co/odaZQoQP4B
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) December 29, 2016
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