{"id":694636,"date":"2026-07-16T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=694636"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:42:46","slug":"audio-president-trump-dismantles-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/16\/audio-president-trump-dismantles-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: President Trump ‘terminating’ Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the signing of two proclamations affecting national monuments<\/a> in Utah.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nWith the proclamations, Trump reduced the size of the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In doing so, he said he was “terminating” both monuments.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nTrump also eliminated the Bears Ears Commission, which had been established to recognize the role of tribal nations in managing Bears Ears.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe signing took place at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 13, 2026.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the signing of two proclamations dismantling national monuments in Utah.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-audio.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[340,11,20,13,1,14],"tags":[1068,157,346,75,7598,43,220,508,1112],"class_list":["post-694636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-environment","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-bears-ears","tag-consultation","tag-dc","tag-donald-trump","tag-grand-staircase-escalante","tag-sacred-sites","tag-sovereignty","tag-utah","tag-white-house","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-2UHO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/16\/DonaldTrumpBearsEarsGrandStaircaseEscalante.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696560,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694636\/revisions\/696560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}