FLOTUS had little to do with the preservation or the removal of that tree. 10 years ago The arborist in charge of the White House grounds determined that the tree was indeed in its final decade, and at that point seedlings were started from the Jackson Magnolia for future replacement.
The time has come and those seedlings are now small Magnolias that are 10 years old and one of those will be used to replace the Jackson Magnolia which was diagnosed a decade ago as being on the decline.
of course the original story out of Newsweek tried very hard to pin this natural disaster on FLOTUS and to ensure a negative press response Handlery left out the part about the decade all diagnosis and the fact that ceilings from the same tree we’re started a decade ago and are now ready for transplant.
so Chelsea like her mother missed the story and the backstory and Are now in the process of making fools of themselves once again. The offending press reports Once again failed to discredit anything the current in the ministration does. And more than likely the story is being over reported but the entire story is being under reported or dropped completely from public purview.