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Melania Trump orders removal of near-200-year-old tree from White House
Newsweak ^ | 12/26/2017 | Sydney Pereira

Posted on 12/26/2017 12:49:20 PM PST by Menehune56

The historic Jackson magnolia has been on the south facade of the White House since the 1800s—making it the oldest on the grounds. But Tuesday, Melania Trump reportedly made the decision to have it removed after tree specialists determined “the overall architecture and structure of the tree is greatly compromised.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arborist; evil; firstladymelania; flotusmelania; melania; melaniatrump; newsweak; newsweek; notnice; tree; trump; trumpwhitehouse; whitehouse
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To: Menehune56
newsweak is reporting what CNN is reporting.

damage to the tree is "apparent" ?

Documentation reviewed by CNN revealed the Jackson magnolia has had apparent damage as far as five decades back.
61 posted on 12/26/2017 1:28:22 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Menehune56

Spread a rumor that the WH will donate it to a company that makes crosses out of it. Liberal heads will explode.


62 posted on 12/26/2017 1:28:22 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood
Better yet, the rumor will be that the crosses will be used in Confederate cemeteries.
63 posted on 12/26/2017 1:31:15 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: MagUSNRET
"I say they should save the wood and send it to a craftsman in the Carolinas,or to the Amish and have some great piece of furniture built from it, and put THAT in the White House"

I suggest a table and call it the Andrew Jackson 1812 map table.

64 posted on 12/26/2017 1:31:29 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Menehune56
The Trumps are obviously tree haters as well.☺ Next we'll hear unnamed sources have reported Melania and Donald were fighting over who got to chop it down. Vicious.
65 posted on 12/26/2017 1:31:46 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Menehune56

GHASTLY!

First Obamacare and now this.... ARBORICIDE!!!!!
How horrible!!

Nancy Pelosi TOLD us it was end of the world!!!!!


66 posted on 12/26/2017 1:31:56 PM PST by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Menehune56

Another opportunity for a fake news accusation tweet that is dead on target. They make it so easy.


67 posted on 12/26/2017 1:32:06 PM PST by \/\/ayne (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / -- --- .-. . / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .)
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To: Big Red Badger
Activists slated to Chain Selves to Tree!

It's a racist, hate filled, Indian killing tree put there by none other than Andrew Jackson. It will be replaced by the Harriet Tubman tree. :)

68 posted on 12/26/2017 1:32:07 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Big Red Badger

There will be a judge somewhere who will reverse this decision and “save” the tree.


69 posted on 12/26/2017 1:32:29 PM PST by Russ
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To: Red Badger

I posted this on another thread that

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But the Jackson magnolia will live on. White House groundskeepers have been
preparing for the tree’s demise and have grown several offshoots from the
tree and will plant one of them in its place.

http://abc13.com/society/white-house-magnolia-to-be-cut-down/2826222/


70 posted on 12/26/2017 1:33:01 PM PST by deport
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To: stylin19a

Definition of apparent.
1 : open to view : visible The changes were readily apparent.

2 : clear or manifest to the understanding for reasons that are apparent.

3 : appearing as actual to the eye or mind was in apparen


71 posted on 12/26/2017 1:33:48 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Menehune56

The Park service will decide.
fake news


72 posted on 12/26/2017 1:34:15 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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The other thread on the Jackson Magnolia being removed at the White House

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3617047/posts


73 posted on 12/26/2017 1:35:21 PM PST by deport
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To: Menehune56

Southern Magnolias are racist trees.


74 posted on 12/26/2017 1:35:37 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: deport

Newsweek should be ashamed...................


75 posted on 12/26/2017 1:36:30 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: deport

The cuttings are clones and are the same tree. Kudos to the park service for their preparation. Excellent.


76 posted on 12/26/2017 1:38:48 PM PST by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: MacNaughton

Some young men poisoned a several hundred year old tree at the Alamo. Caught and arrested. I always wondered how his life has fared.


77 posted on 12/26/2017 1:40:08 PM PST by healy61
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To: Telepathic Intruder

lol, the Trumps have found the perfect place to locate the media gaggle that perpetually hangs out on the lawn to get themselves on camera with the White House as a backdrop.


78 posted on 12/26/2017 1:41:20 PM PST by Avalon Memories (The question about.out fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
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To: CGASMIA68
This Christmas I was given a knife made of damascus steel and the grip made of wood taken from the last dreadnought battleship - The USS Texas - the last of these battleships.

They should take the wood from this tree and make a commemorative knife with handles from this tree - the Jackson knife - and sell it and use the money for the areboretum or white house grounds.

79 posted on 12/26/2017 1:41:23 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (proawakileftist)
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To: Menehune56

Do something significant with the wood.


80 posted on 12/26/2017 1:41:34 PM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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