National Park Service apologizes for tweets critical of Trump

The National Park Service apologized Saturday for tweets a day earlier that pointed out the crowd size at President Trump’s inauguration.

“We regret the mistaken RTs from our account yesterday and look forward to continuing to share the beauty and history of our parks with you,” the National Park Serivce tweeted.

We regret the mistaken RTs from our account yesterday and look forward to continuing to share the beauty and history of our parks with you pic.twitter.com/mctNNvlrmv

— NationalParkService (@NatlParkService) January 21, 2017

Earlier Saturday, the Washington Post reported that the Trump administration had banned the Interior Department from Twitter over the Friday tweets.

“All bureaus and the department have been directed by incoming administration to shut down Twitter platforms immediately until further notice,” an email to Park Service employees on Friday reportedly said.

A government official told The Post that the retweets were being investigated to determine whether the account had been hacked.

The National Parks Service Twitter account remained active, but the posts in question were removed.