President Donald Trump is utilizing the White Home garden to mix two of his favourite hobbies: erasing historical past and deforestation.
Trump is eradicating a historic tree on the South Garden planted by late President Andrew Jackson practically two centuries in the past.
“The bad news is that everything must come to an end, and this tree is in terrible condition, a very dangerous safety hazard, at the White House Entrance, no less, and must now be removed,” Trump wrote Sunday through Fact Social.
He added that the tree will likely be lower down subsequent week and changed by “another very beautiful tree.”
On the brilliant aspect, Trump will reportedly have the wooden preserved and repurposed, writing that it “could also be used for different excessive and noble functions!!!”
It’s unclear what functions the president has in thoughts, provided that he has already made some controversial modifications to the White Home since beginning his second time period.
If we had been to guess which “noble” functions Trump is leaning towards, he might be interested by a few his latest tasks.
He might at all times reuse Jackson’s southern magnolia as a new body for his mugshot within the hallway of the White Home. Eagle-eyed reporters caught glimpses of mugshot not lengthy after Trump took workplace, and for now, it’s ornate with gold.
Or he might use it as decor round his copy of the Declaration of Independence, which hangs on a wall within the Oval Workplace behind a curtain. (How’s that for on the nostril?)
Or if residing out his knockoff of “National Treasure” doesn’t work out, he might use the wooden on the dance flooring he intends to place over the grass of the Rose Backyard. Insiders informed The New York Instances in February that Trump and his spouse, Melania, intend to pave over the grass within the Rose Backyard to imitate their marble-slabbed surfaces at Mar-a-Lago.
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All in all, Trump has loads of choices for pay homage to the presidents who got here earlier than him. Solely time will inform how noble his decisions will likely be.
