After questions took root over what happened to the oak tree President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron planted on White House grounds last week, the French president's office has an explanation: It was put in quarantine. News photographers snapped away Monday when Trump and Macron shoveled dirt onto the tree during a ceremonial planting on the South Lawn. By the end of the week, the tree was gone from the lawn. The White House hadn't offered an explanation -- but now word from Paris is the sapling is quarantined just like other plants or animals brought into U.S. territory. An official in Macron’s office told the Associated Press Monday that Trump insisted on holding a symbolic planting ceremony alongside Macron despite the quarantine requirement.

Source: Fox News April 30, 2018 05:17 UTC