What an astonishingly ignorant man Trump is. Designation as a national monument is not a "federal land grab", since those lands already belong to all the people of the United States, under the management of the federal government. Trump is not giving those lands "back to the states and to the people," since the states never owned them, and they were not, as monuments, taken from the people. To the contrary, monument status saved those lands for all the people, and not for Rio Tinto or some other foreign mining company to fence in and turn into pit mines.

Is Trump really this ignorant? Or is he using lies to create confusion as to who owns those lands, the people to whom they belong, or the exploiters who would take them for themselves exclusive of public interest? In one case he is incompetent, in the other case, corrupt. No president has ever reversed national monument status in US history. Probably this isn't legal, but with our new Supreme Court, who knows?