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askyagerz

(776 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 08:18 PM Mar 2017

I wonder if Trump has ever even been in a National Park?

slept under the stars... kayaked a river... hiked in the hills... swam under a waterfall... watched the sunrise over a lake... sunset from the top of a mountain... watched wildlife with his children... sat in a field, closed his eyes and listened...
How many things has he missed that makes humans human or even Americans American?
Has anything ever put him awe other then money?
Sad...

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,705 posts)
4. Never. His only "communing with nature" occurs
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 08:25 PM
Mar 2017

on groomed, weeded, herbicided golf courses on which he can ride his fat ass around on a golf cart. Otherwise he prefers to be indoors in a place that looks like a cheap gilt-sprayed simulacrum of Louis XIV's whorehouse. He has missed out on all kinds of wonderful things but I don't feel a bit sorry for him because he has always considered money and prestige to be all that matters. Yes, that's SAD.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
5. I have never
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 08:28 PM
Mar 2017

been to one, but when I see them online, I at least appreciate their beauty and their existence unlike him or his administration.

 

aidbo

(2,328 posts)
8. Sorry to be a contrarian but technically, yes he has been in at least one.
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 08:59 PM
Mar 2017

Because the White House is considered a National Park

https://www.nps.gov/whho/index.htm

The President of the United States lives in a National Park
Every president except George Washington has called the White House and its surrounding grounds his place of work, rest, and solitude. Recognizable around the world, the White House stands as a symbol of democracy. The White House and its park grounds serve not only as the seat of the executive branch of government of the United States of America, but also as an iconic place for civil discourse.

Old Terp

(464 posts)
9. As to traditional large National Parks, I doubt it.
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 09:17 PM
Mar 2017

While there are various levels of lodging, I doubt that many are at the level that Trump would think he deserves. (This if from the guy who's grandfather's hotels were tents with"sporting ladies&quot Most lodging rooms are not air-conditioned, most are rustic,
most don't have tvs or phones or wifi. Granted, some do, and there are often plush facilities outside the parks. I'm more afraid that Trump will try to open up the parks to commercial development (picture a hotel spanning the Grand Canyon).

Duppers

(28,120 posts)
10. I think it's sad that too many Americans have never experienced
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 10:00 PM
Mar 2017

these things. And far sadder is that too many would never want to.

More than just a slam at our psychopathic narcissist in chief, your post is poetic. Trump and soulless people like him would have no idea what that even means.




Luz

(772 posts)
11. No. He hasn't. He has no concept of natural beauty,
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 10:13 PM
Mar 2017

neither in nature or human beings. Look at what he finds beautiful in women. He can't handle real beauty and grace.

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Big Bend in all its glory. The idea of a wall in all of that grandure is repugnant to any reasonable citizen. But, we're not talking reasonable, are we. Even if we drug him out there, he'd still never appreciate it.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)
13. He has probably watched wildlife with his children, but only from the point of view of working out
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 04:33 AM
Apr 2017

the quickest way of killing it.

jeanmarc

(1,685 posts)
14. Been to Big Bend in Texas
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 05:25 AM
Apr 2017

The lack of city lights makes for so many stars that I could barely make out the constellations. So much noise in seeing the other stars that couldn't be seen before. But eventually started seeing the constellations of my youth.

There's no chance our King Don has experienced this. And he eats his steaks well well done, which is disgusting. Dementia is advancing rapidly. The man has no soul.

Vinca

(50,273 posts)
15. The only things that make him happy are money and his reflection in the mirror.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 07:42 AM
Apr 2017

A close second are cameras and microphones. He would only be interested in the beauty of a place like Acadia National Park if it was for sale.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
16. I have wondered the same thing. Eventually
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 08:06 AM
Apr 2017

He will have to attend a function at some really grand park and then claim that he is the first one ever to visit it, or see it. He'll claim to have discovered Yellowstone.

I wonder if anyof his kids have done it with him and their moms when theh were younger. I bet his kids have been deprived.

I bet there are no Eagle Scouts in that family

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