Melania Trump orders removal of near-200-year-old tree from White House

Newsweak ^ | 12/26/2017 | Sydney Pereira

[Menehune56]

The historic Jackson magnolia has been on the south facade of the White House since the 1800s—making it the oldest on the grounds. But Tuesday, Melania Trump reportedly made the decision to have it removed after tree specialists determined “the overall architecture and structure of the tree is greatly compromised.”

[stylin19a]

newsweak is reporting what CNN is reporting.

damage to the tree is "apparent" ?

Documentation reviewed by CNN revealed the Jackson magnolia has had apparent damage as far as five decades back.

[Kirkwood]

Spread a rumor that the WH will donate it to a company that makes crosses out of it. Liberal heads will explode.

[Kirkwood]

Better yet, the rumor will be that the crosses will be used in Confederate cemeteries.

[Liberty Valance]

"I say they should save the wood and send it to a craftsman in the Carolinas,or to the Amish and have some great piece of furniture built from it, and put THAT in the White House"

I suggest a table and call it the Andrew Jackson 1812 map table.

[dragnet2]

The Trumps are obviously tree haters as well.☺ Next we'll hear unnamed sources have reported Melania and Donald were fighting over who got to chop it down. Vicious.

[ZULU]

GHASTLY!

First Obamacare and now this.... ARBORICIDE!!!!!
How horrible!!

Nancy Pelosi TOLD us it was end of the world!!!!!

[\/\/ayne]

Another opportunity for a fake news accusation tweet that is dead on target. They make it so easy.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Activists slated to Chain Selves to Tree!

It's a racist, hate filled, Indian killing tree put there by none other than Andrew Jackson. It will be replaced by the Harriet Tubman tree. :)

[Russ]

There will be a judge somewhere who will reverse this decision and “save” the tree.

[deport]

I posted this on another thread that

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But the Jackson magnolia will live on. White House groundskeepers have been
preparing for the tree’s demise and have grown several offshoots from the
tree and will plant one of them in its place.

http://abc13.com/society/white-house-magnolia-to-be-cut-down/2826222/

[Covenantor]

Definition of apparent.
1 : open to view : visible The changes were readily apparent.

2 : clear or manifest to the understanding for reasons that are apparent.

3 : appearing as actual to the eye or mind was in apparen

[bert]

The Park service will decide.
fake news

[deport]

The other thread on the Jackson Magnolia being removed at the White House

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3617047/posts

[TTFlyer]

Southern Magnolias are racist trees.

[Red Badger]

Newsweek should be ashamed...................

[buffaloguy]

The cuttings are clones and are the same tree. Kudos to the park service for their preparation. Excellent.

[healy61]

Some young men poisoned a several hundred year old tree at the Alamo. Caught and arrested. I always wondered how his life has fared.

[Avalon Memories]

lol, the Trumps have found the perfect place to locate the media gaggle that perpetually hangs out on the lawn to get themselves on camera with the White House as a backdrop.

[Texas Songwriter]

This Christmas I was given a knife made of damascus steel and the grip made of wood taken from the last dreadnought battleship - The USS Texas - the last of these battleships.

They should take the wood from this tree and make a commemorative knife with handles from this tree - the Jackson knife - and sell it and use the money for the areboretum or white house grounds.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Do something significant with the wood.