File this one under the Face-Eating Leopards again: A Trump voter is lamenting their decision to uproot themselves and move across country now that they can’t come back.
The r/LeopardsAteMyFace subreddit is a nearly inexhaustible supply of stories — some of them overwhelmingly sad — of Trump supporters who are finding out the hard way that life is actually getting worse under the guy they voted for.
I know it’s often hard to sympathize with them, given the fact that they were warned. Also, Trump is overtly, loudly, and purposefully a jerk almost all the time, so even if he didn’t ruin their life specifically, it’s hard to even like Trump voters in the first place.
But some of them get blindsided by things out of the blue, and that’s been the case not just with the guy in our headline, but a number of National Parks workers across the country who are learning that Donald Trump plans to prioritize taking away public lands for energy extraction.
It’s “Drill, Baby, Drill” but on a massive scale.

That was the Facebook post of the unnamed Trumper who found out he couldn’t come home to a different position within the National Parks that he thought he was going to get. It’s blacked out and anonymized because the screen capture was posted to Reddit by his former coworker who’s still friends with him on social media.
Shane Kearney of Atlanta was another person who applied for seasonal work with the National Parks, in his case at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Details may have been thin on the Trump guy, but Shane was more than willing to speak with San Francisco news website SFGate, and the details are awful.
He interviewed on Dec. 16 for a fee technician role at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which would involve doing camper check-ins and picking up trash and lost property along the North Carolina beach. The gig came with health insurance and housing arranged by the park service, Kearney told SFGATE, so when he got offered the job on Jan. 8, he immediately accepted.
During the onboarding process in mid-January, he drove across Atlanta to get fingerprinted and turned down a tech job that had been his backup plan, he said. He heard nothing more from the park service until an email came through at 12:51 p.m. on Thursday from someone he had never spoken with.
This was the email that Shane got:

Then, minutes later, over on the subreddit r/ParkRangers, something almost identical [1] showed up about a potential job at Yellowstone that had also been rescinded.
In fact, the SFGate article says, more than a dozen others popped up around Reddit at the same time, all of them having gotten some variation of this same email, all on Thursday.
So like any good news organization, SFGate reached out to the National Park Service and asked the big question: Does all of this have anything to do with Donald Trump’s immediate hiring freeze, implemented the day he took office?
After dozens of unreturned emails, SFGate went back to the text of the January 20th Memorandum out of the White House: “As part of this freeze, no Federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 20, 2025, may be filled, and no new position may be created except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or other applicable law.”
Well, that about covers any doubt we may have had about whether Park Rangers are getting hired any time soon. Or fee technicians. Or trash collectors. Or docents. Until someone can convince Elon Musk that our national parks are essential and we should be staffing them, nobody gets a job,
That last bit seems like hyperbole, right? I’m making a “President Musk” joke, right?
Here’s that memo:
Within 90 days of the date of this memorandum, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Director of OPM and the Administrator of the United States DOGE Service (USDS), shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government’s workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition. Upon issuance of the OMB plan, this memorandum shall expire for all executive departments and agencies, with the exception of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This memorandum shall remain in effect for the IRS until the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of OMB and the Administrator of USDS, determines that it is in the national interest to lift the freeze.
USDS = Elon Musk. You know, that goose-stepper whose picture from the other day can’t even legally be printed in German newspapers, because the gesture he made has been outlawed there.
Even more NPS employees stepped forward to be interviewed. One Ranger who worked last at Canyonlands in Utah got a “rescinded” email for his next seasonal position. “We were told that we were safe from this, that our jobs still existed and we would continue to be hired,” he told SFGate through a direct message on Reddit. “I plan my year around NPS seasons, including renting apartments, putting in notices at my off-season jobs, and making hotel arrangements for travel. I don’t know where I’m going at this point, or even where I’m going to live if these jobs are truly rescinded and not just delayed.”
This has to be one of the hardest cases of “f* around and find out” that America’s ever seen.