PARIS (AP) — The French president’s office says there’s nothing mysterious about the disappearance of an oak tree he planted on the White House lawn.
It was put in quarantine, like other plants or animals brought into U.S. territory.
The sapling was a gift from French President Emmanuel Macron for his state visit to U.S. President Donald Trump last week.
An official in Macron’s office said Monday that Trump insisted on holding a symbolic planting ceremony alongside Macron despite the quarantine requirement. The official said both sides knew all along that the tree would go later into quarantine.
A pale patch of grass now covers the spot.
The oak originally sprouted at the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood in northern France, where about 2,000 U.S. troops died fighting a German offensive.
ETTD…sad !
Fungus grows fast - a little too late for the quarantine surely, but it does reflect the current quarantine of France’s earlier gift - the Statue of Liberty.
Fake President making Fake News.
Just a thought for my own satisfaction:
ALL of Trump’s genetic tree mob have vanished and has been quarantined for all eternity.
Interesting because I was thinking when I is first read about this planting that I wondered if bringing a plant from a foreign country was a good idea. Something similar to this is what killed US chestnut trees, which was at one time the most common tree in the US I believe. And has given us a slew of other invasive non-native plants, and animals, in the US.