President Trump is saying sayonara to a tree that President Andrew Jackson reportedly planted on the White House.
Mr. Trump introduced Sunday on Fact Social that he’s working with the residence workers on “great enhancements to the White House,” and one of many “attention-grabbing dilemmas” they’ve confronted is what to do with the “tree planted a few years in the past by the Legendary President and Normal, Andrew Jackson.”
“It’s a Southern Magnolia, that got here from his dwelling, The Hermitage, in Tennessee. That’s the excellent news!” Mr. Trump stated. “The dangerous information is that all the pieces should come to an finish, and this tree is in horrible situation, a really harmful security hazard, on the White House Entrance, no much less, and should now be eliminated.”
Mr. Trump stated the tree would get replaced “by one other, very stunning tree.”
“The Historic wooden from the tree might be preserved by the White House Employees, and could also be used for different excessive and noble functions!!!” he stated.
In keeping with the Nationwide Park Service, the “folklore” is that President Jackson planted the tree’s seeds to honor his late spouse, Rachel, who died shortly earlier than he took workplace.
“In 2006, the timber have been designated as Witness Timber by the Nationwide Park Service, having borne witness to many “vital historic and cultural occasions,” the park service web site says. “The bottom of the timber additionally took the brunt of a Cessna airplane crash which focused the White House in September 1994 and have been topic to vital department elimination and pruning in December 2017.”
