They injected it with “Dutch Oak” disease after Macron called out Trump in his address to Congress…
Or maybe SHS burned it to create that “smokey eye” look…
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It’s likely that Trump has never planted anything in his life. I expect his experience with a shovel has been limited to this sort of ceremonial stuff.
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It does make me wonder if anyone serving the WH talks to anyone else serving in the WH. God if they had a lunch room, and had to eat lunch at a specific time, then a sociologist would have a field day notating relationships and sub-relationships among these people.
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Or one small act of a resistance fighter that’s embedded?
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Poor tree, probably parked in a dumpster somewhere. And it sprouted at Belleau Wood, France, site of a huge battle in 1918 where a couple thousand American GI’s died. On one of my trips to France I visited a much smaller battle field of that awful war. I was there in 1989 and still the field could not support plant life. It was barren mud. With a pitted stump of a tree in one corner… It brought home the intensity of what had happened there 71 years prior.
Poor missing tree…
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Hadn’t thought of it quite that way. Good point.
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Potemkin tree.
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Where’s the tree? If Trump touched it, like everything else it’s dying somewhere.
Eventually Cousin Huck will burn it to create some more “perfect smoky eye.”
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Thousand bucks says the Great Orange Draft-Dodger said “get that thing outta here!” That it came from Belleau only makes it even more disgusting that he ever laid hands on it.
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He does shovel a lot every day!
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Mar-A-Lago?
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The oak sprouted at a World War I battle site that became part of U.S. Marine Corps legend.
About 2,000 U.S. troops died in the June 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, fighting a German offensive.
Interesting choice of tree by Macron, considering that Merkel was due to visit shortly.
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He would actually do something like that, even if he doesn’t like the tree, just so he can say, “It’s mine.” He won’t acknowledge that gifts from foreign dignitaries are gifts to our country, and the president is just the figurehead we use to represent us on those occasions. If he doesn’t like it, it would be disposed of, if he does, he’ll figure a way to keep it for himself.
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No reason not to do both.
Better yet, plan far enough in advance to get the tree out of quarantine and then actually plant the damn thing and leave it there.
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Sure, and someone else mentioned that too. I just don’t see this as something to get all bent out of shape over. Even if every single other person who reads TPM is outraged over it, I’m still fine with it. Maybe I’ll even wear a tan suit tomorrow…or go sleeveless.
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About half way through. I’m not sure about the last part but Trump doesn’t seem to understand what he’s supposed to be doing there, in spite of the fact that they each have a ceremonial pile of dirt and get directions beforehand.
Yeah, I posted before reading down. I’m not outraged either, by the way - it’s just one more small indication of this WH managing to fuck up even the smallest details. One sentence to reporters and no one would have given the quarantine a second thought.
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Welp, it’s the ‘Farmer Greenjeans’ in his background in Queens I suppose coming to the fore. Praps when the tree i replanted by the WH groundskeepers he will order up some daisies to gussy up the poor twig…
Rarely have I seen one as consistently awkward as trump is.
That tree is now part of a new Trump’s family venture. Trump’s toothpicks.
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When the two couples stop by those outside doors trump says something to Macron and then points and gestures to thise doors. My fantasy script right there was something like:
trump…Hey Macron waddya think of this"?
Macron… What?
trump… yeah, it’s my private presidential port-a-potty for when I use the South Lawn as my practice putting green. Ya know sometimes old guys like me…our prostates won’t give us the time to get inside so I just go in there and…
Macron… Oh God… I don’t…
trump … Yeah, I’m a old guy.(snicker), how’s the wife in bed? (snicker).
Macron … Plant tree please…we must plant the tree donald.
trump … oh OK, If you insist…