WASHINGTON—A tree that’s almost two centuries previous might be faraway from the White Home grounds as a result of it’s deteriorating, President Donald Trump mentioned Sunday.
The southern magnolia stands close to the curved portico on the south aspect of the constructing. It’s the place international leaders are sometimes welcomed for ceremonial visits, and the place the president departs to board the Marine One helicopter.
In response to the Nationwide Park Service web site, “folklore tells us” that President Andrew Jackson introduced the tree’s seeds from his house close to Nashville, Tennessee. It was apparently planted in honor of his spouse Rachel, who died shortly earlier than he took workplace in 1829.
“The dangerous information is that every part should come to an finish, and this tree is in horrible situation, a really harmful security hazard, on the White Home Entrance, no much less, and should now be eliminated,” Trump wrote on Fact Social, his social media platform. “This course of will happen subsequent week, and might be changed by one other, very lovely tree.”
Trump mentioned the wooden from the tree “could also be used for different excessive and noble functions!!!”
The tree was considerably pruned in 2017, throughout Trump’s first time period. It was additionally broken in 1994 when a small Cessna airplane crashed into the South Garden and skidded into the White Home.