Posted on 12/21/2016 3:26:30 PM PST by madprof98
On the day leading up to the final rally of Donald Trump’s “thank you” tour, city officials in Mobile, Ala., raved about its plans for a festive, Christmas welcome for the president-elect. The mayor’s chief of staff tweeted that the city “did the impossible,” erecting and decorating a 50-foot Christmas tree as a backdrop for Trump’s speech.
But some Mobile residents soon speculated that the majestic cedar tree was one they had seen before, AL.com reported. Just over a mile away from the stadium where Trump would speak, in a public park, a massive cedar tree was gone.
As skeptical residents raised questions with the mayor, city officials confirmed that, indeed, the tree had been removed from Public Safety Memorial Park and taken to Ladd-Peebles Stadium. In emails and across social media, residents erupted in outrage.
“Our city parks aren’t Christmas tree farms,” one woman said she wrote in an email to Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson. “An old growth tree from a city park for backdrop? Insane.”
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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.
And Democrat response to Katrina, both at the state and local level were successfully blamed on Bush.
So... where did the wood go... is Trump getting the cedar lined closet, or is the Mayor?
Your locale. Comments?
Seems stupid of the city officials if true, which is a key qualifier.
“It was an ugly tree anyway.”
Cedar trees grow like weeds. People use them for 30’ hedges and sound barriers along roadways in the front of their properties. Plant them when they’re 6 feet tall, and within a couple of years they are ginormous.
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.
Those who actually read this realize Trump did nothing, it was the local mayor and city officials that cut down the tree.
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One of the best Andy Griffith Shows was the story how a movie company came to Mayberry to film, and the Mayor and City Council got the bright idea to cut down the city’s oldest and revered tree “in honor of the movie director. Before they could put the saw to it, the director called a halt to the madness and it was saved. Funny episode.
My sister in Arkansas has a beautiful old cedar tree in her yard. It must be 50 feet tall, a perfect Christmas tree. One other thing, it is full of Black widow spiders. Birds love it.
Except for trying to hang the blame on Trump or his supporters, then it does make sense.
“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’.
Could be ‘bag worms’.
What odd pagan ritual kills trees?
Don't look now, but your apostrophe is hanging out.
Horse hockey: it's a tree.
All those WaPo tools can shove their "old growth," "beloved," "local favorite," crap.
If the tree had turned up gone for anything beside a Trump event, they'd have all gone "damn, that sucks. I really liked that old tree." And any agreement you give them will be used against you.
When they complain, we need to tell them "here's a quarter...etc."
I didn't know about this until now and this is all I know about it.
I don't like that they cut the tree.
Tree cutting is a sore subject around here: Inspiration Oak
A to the MEN!
IIRC Cedar trees are imports to that area and people are being urged to get rid of them so native trees can grow.
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