[madprof98]

The Washington Post has clearly taken a new turn toward environmental awareness. Wonder how many investigative reporters are on a hot story like this?

[IronJack]

And of course this will get blamed on Trump, as if he told the city to go out and cut down the most treasured tree in town.

[BenLurkin]

Unless the wapo has suddenly become the local paper in Mobile, it makes no sense for it to cover the story.

[Sacajaweau]

Old growth tree?? Yeh right...

[Osage Orange]

If in fact the city did that.....it was wrong.

[Doogle]

?????....this don’t make any sense...maybe the tree had to be taken down before it fell down killing someone

[pfflier]

This story is designed to make the illiterate, intolerant and ill informed assume Trump had the tree cut down somehow?

Those who actually read this realize Trump did nothing, it was the local mayor and city officials that cut down the tree.

[MotorCityBuck]

Trump. Making Christmas Tree's Great Again. 🙌

[petitfour]

Majestic? Hardly. It wasn’t even that pretty. Mobile is loaded with beautiful, old oak trees. Cedar trees are not something I think of when I think of beautiful trees in Mobile. Oak, pecan, mimosa, magnolia, crepe myrtle, etc. But not cedar. It’s not even a shade tree. Alas, whiners will whine.

[petitfour]

Where is Public Safety Memorial Park?

[Twinkie]

Cedar trees were what we always had for our Christmas trees
when I was a kid. They were FREE and plentiful around
where we lived. - Dried out pretty quick and shed a lot of
needles if they weren’t kept watered.

[FormerACLUmember]

Expect four (eight?) years of Crooked Jeff Bezos raging like this.

Time for a 5% Federal Excise tax on all Amazon purchases. Plus a massive antitrust indictment from a new, cleaned-up Dept of Justice.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Resourceful....

[FreedomPoster]

Your locale. Comments?

Seems stupid of the city officials if true, which is a key qualifier.

[Ezekiel]

“It was an ugly tree anyway.”

[deport]

[HokieMom]

I don’t believe the WP so I doubt the validity of the details of this story. I’m sure Trump will be happy to have a new one planted. Cedars are a dime a dozen in the south. I’m sure it’ll grow quickly.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

“An old growth tree.” Says all I need to know. Environmenalist whack job.

Cue the hippie, tree hugger vid of them crying about the ‘old growth’.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

What odd pagan ritual kills trees?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

IIRC Cedar trees are imports to that area and people are being urged to get rid of them so native trees can grow.

[madprof98]

Cedar trees grow like weeds in the deep South. No way on earth this tree was even all that old. This is more FAKE NEWS, people!