What foreign tourists? Nobody is gonna visit out of fear of being trafficked to some random country’s prison.
Don’t call it “being trafficked”, call it “surprise random country visit”.
Could just be a way to make it so that if you do anything anywhere you’ll have to ID knowing full well there’s no foreigners visiting
Well, he’s certainly not going for a culture victory but I think we knew that already.
Ditched a science victory as well. What’s left? Religious? Maybe but unlikely. Domination? Even the US can’t do that. Diplomatic? Not a fucking chance. So…points I guess?
he is going for the, loot the entire house, option. Already took the gold from fort knox.
Ditched a science victory as well. What’s left? Religious? Maybe but unlikely. Domination? Even the US can’t do that. Diplomatic? Not a fucking chance. So…points I guess?
That’s a great way to discourage tourism dollars.
Yeah TBH I always figured that part of his policy impact was just a casualty but he appears to actually have it out for the tourism industry.
There wasn’t any danger of me coming to spend my money in that third world shithole anyway.
😂😂😂 Can’t pay a fee if you don’t go! 🤡🤡🤡
He’s making it easier and easier for me to not visit the shithole.
Yo I live in this shithole give me a few years and we’ll hopefully see you then.
It’s actually getting kind of hard to think of new, stupider ways to ruin the economy and raise the cost of living. Parody is getting close to being indistinguishable from reality.
- Blanket tariffs for goods with low domestic production? Done.
- Imprisoning laborers who do domestic farming? Yes.
- Deporting legal, tax-paying noncitizens? Yep.
- Pissing off citizens of countries that contribute significantly to local tourism? Indeed.
- Asking potential tourists to pay extra for the privilege of visiting a to-be-sold-for-industrial-logging park? Why not.
- Cutting healthcare and replacing it with a bonus for the 0.001%? Might as well!
I’m sure having to have your ID checked when visiting your own national parks won’t have anything to do with ICE. This will impact Americans more than it will by costing a few extra dollars for international visitors.
Trump is just stupid. Many countries that rely on tourism do this, they have free or near free entry for citizens and ~$20-100 entry for foreigners. This helps them generate a significant portion of their annual budget.
I haven’t verified these numbers, but quick searching days that roughly 14–15 million foreign tourists visit U.S. national parks each year, accounting for about 4% of total park visits. If we charge $20 per person for international visitors, that’s $280–300 million annually… that’s… Peanuts for the US.
I wouldn’t be opposed to it at all if the fees are only used to preserve and maintain the national parks, but you know this fucker just wants to funnel the money into deep pockets.
Orange convicted rapist/felon is a drooling geriatric baboon. Thiel and the project 2025 gang are the ones to watch.
Which countries charges $20-100 for visiting an equivalent of a national park or museum? Not questioning you, but curious.
There are places that charges a tourist tax that is for everyone not living there and paid through the hotel or tourist apartment.
I had this happen in India, although I don’t know if it was the particular site or if it was a general policy. I saw it as paying less than I would have paid for a comparable museum at home, while citizens are encouraged to connect with their heritage. I was fine with it.
But the US is an expensive place, so you’re only making it unobtainable. National parks should not be a profit center, and I barely agree with charging anyone. I especially disagree with requiring ID, making this logically unenforceable.
And of course I’d expect this to turn into racism really quickly.
Hawaii does this. Hanauma Bay is free for locals but charges $25 for tourists.
Good idea, I bet they use it to better and maintain their parks unlike rump who will just line his pockets.
I’m not sure how many other countries have the equivalent of US National Parks. They’re pretty exceptional, which is why it’s a fucking travesty that they were/are trying to sell off the land.
I am sure they will have ice there ready to take anyone they please at the park gate now that they have a 50 billion dollar budget due to taking away everyone’s health care and more now that bbb bill passed. Travelling to the states would most likely be a death warrant to a significant amount of people.
Once he finishes logging, mining and drilling them, not many people will want to visit America’s National Parks, anyway.
Would need to have tourist in the first place
“To fund improvements and enhanced experiences across the park system, I’ve just signed an executive order to raise entrance fees for foreign tourists while keeping prices low for Americans. The national parks will be about America first.”
Oh thank god! After slashing over $1 billion from the nps budget and firing over 5,000 of its workers I was beginning to think this guy maybe didn’t care about the national parks. What a relief!
Trump, I don’t need MORE reasons to not cross the border. We are already not going there…
Amazing that a hotel owner hates tourism that much.
Fuck the U. S. A. Hey ICE: fuck you! Suck my cock. You dirty cocksuckers.
Wow, a whole $90 million. That will certainly offset all these tax cuts!
You just aren’t thinking big picture. This will need time to play out. $90 million over 50,000 years and those tax cuts are gone! Be patient.
Old Faithful will be shooting blanks and we’re charging $150 (not adjusted for inflation) per vehicle
