If you tried to go to a national park on Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) day this year, you probably were in for a rude awakening. Where national parks usually provide free admission on both MLK day and Juneteenth, the Trump administration decided to remove both of these days, replacing it with Flag Day – which happens to be Trump’s birthday.

Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said, “Removing MLK Day and Juneteenth from the national parks calendar is more than petty politics – it’s an attack on the truth of this nation’s history.”

Last year, the National Park Service was ordered to remove physical and digital materials related to slavery – anything that was deemed “inappropriate” was marked and taken down. 

“Black history has repeatedly been targeted by [Trump’s] administration, and it shouldn’t be,” said Kristen Brengel, the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs.

The Trump Administration also began restoring a Confederate memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. According to Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense, the memorial “never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike the left, we don’t believe in erasing American history. We honor it.”

While Trump has not verbally stated reasons for these changes, the president signed an executive order that makes sure that materials don’t “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” and are made to “focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.”

The new fee-free days include: Flag Day (June 14), the anniversary of the National Park Service (Aug. 25), Constitution Day (Sept. 17), and deceased President Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday (Oct. 27).

The United States Department of the Interior said that this change was made in line with “Trump’s commitment to making national parks more accessible, more affordable and more efficient for the American people.”