Trump administration derides Stonewall National Monument flag-raising ceremony as ‘political stunt’

The Trump administration aggressively criticized activists and elected officials who raised a Rainbow Flag at the Stonewall National Monument three days after the National Park Service removed the flag from the flagpole on federal land.

The Department of the Interior, the agency which includes the National Park Service (NPS), told Gay City News the flag-raising ceremony was a “political stunt” and “a distraction” from the city’s “recent deadly failures.”