Mystery solved: Why Trump-Macron friendship tree vanished
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PARIS — The French president’s office says there’s nothing mysterious about the disappearance of an oak tree he planted on the White House lawn.
It was put in quarantine, like other plants or animals brought into U.S. territory.
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Yes, I had read that from another source.
I guess it’s OK. Probably being paranoid over nothing, but foreign plant life is a potential problem. Unfortunately the people who police this type of thing are hugely bureaucratic. Seldom use common sense.