Now, just as symbolically with relations strained between the two, the oak tree has reportedly died, according to The Guardian, a British daily newspaper. Macron and Trump, wielding gold-coloured spades, shovelled dirt around it, watched by the first ladies Brigitte Macron and Melania Trump and the world’s press during the April 2018 state visit. Even at the time, the auspices were not good: jokes quickly spread on social media that Macron was trolling Trump over his environmental policies. Once the cameras had departed, the tree was uprooted and placed into quarantine to avoid the spread of non-native diseases and invasive insects, says The Guardian. Images showed only a yellow patch of grass in the spot on the White House south lawn where the tree had been planted.

Source: bd News24 June 11, 2019 04:52 UTC