Trump To Chop Down Historic White House Tree

The Daily Beast reports:

President Donald Trump has confirmed the White House will remove a magnolia tree from the property that is said to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson nearly 200 years ago. The seed from the southern magnolia, Trump said, came from Jackson’s home, The Hermitage, in Tennessee.

But with the tree in a “terrible condition” and after consulting with Executive Residence Staff and the National Park Service, Trump labelled the tree “a very dangerous safety hazard, at the White House Entrance, no less,” and said it “must now be removed.”

According to the National Park Service, “the seeds were planted to honor the memory of Jackson’s late wife, Rachel, who had died suddenly just months prior to him assuming office.”

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