White House tree: Emmanuel Macron's sapling disappears
Source: BBC
A tree gifted to President Donald Trump by French President Emmanuel Macron has disappeared.
The pair planted the sapling, taken from the site of a World War One battle in north-east France, during Mr Macron's state visit last week.
Mr Macron said the tree would be a reminder of "these ties that bind us".
But a Reuters photographer on Saturday took a shot of only a yellow patch of grass on the White House south lawn where the tree once stood.
The tree, a European sessile oak, came from the site of the Battle of Belleau Wood, which took place in the summer of 1918.
Nearly 2,000 US soldiers died in the battle north-east of Paris.
Yet only four days after it was planted, the sapling has disappeared.
There has been no official reason given for the sapling mystery, but there is speculation online about the tree's fate.
French radio network Franceinfo quotes gardening site gerbaud.com, which says this type of oak is better planted in autumn, giving it time to grow deep roots "to face the drought of the following summer".
"The tree may be back in October," Franceinfo speculates.
Meanwhile, Huffington Post quotes an unnamed official at the Elysée Palace, who said the tree is under quarantine.
US Customs imposes a quarantine period on any plant, seed or soil imported from abroad.
The official reportedly said the tree is doing well.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43941146
dalton99a
(81,673 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)You know trump cannot tell a lie (snicker, snicker)!
dalton99a
(81,673 posts)No tree, no tree.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)That has characterized the Trump administration's first year-plus.
This guy was in TV for years but he seems to know nothing about advance planning or even the basics of television production. (Like check with the WH gardner and border control before you attempt to plant a tree on the lawn. And you might even decide ahead of time where the spouses stand and what they do, so it doesn't look like they're wandering around in a daze.)
How come he's still so ignorant? Could it be he lost his ability to learn anything 50 years ago?
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Inferior Secretary Scott Pruitt chopped it up for kindling to get his coal stove going.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Two days of civility seems to be the limit before reverting to deplorable SOP.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)fuck the orange asshole.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)and Trump thought the story should be about him. He wasn't paying attention when they got to the moral of the story "I can not tell a lie."
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Now, if that had been a "patch of yellow snow" I would have suspected Russian hookers were to blame.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,715 posts)invasive species. The NPS probably blew a gasket when that tree showed up.