"Everything Trump touches dies" or so says never-Trumper Republican Rick Wilson. It seems that the tree planted by demagogue and Extremely Stable Genius Donald "Rump" Trump and slippery French
The oak tree that Trump and Macron planted has succumbed to extreme hypocrisy and neglect, much like our relations with France and our other democratic allies in Western Europe. Symbolically, the oak sapling came from Belleau Wood, an historic site of a battle during World War I where over 1,800 Americans died defending France -- no bone spurs there. From The Guardian's account:
"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.""Uprooted and placed into quarantine." It's now dead. So symbolic. Like Mango Mussolini should be placed into quarantine until the U.S. regains its compass and senses, and a warning for Macron and others who would play to Trump's malignant narcissism for short-term gains with military parades and pomp.
(photo: Last week at Normandy. "Je t'aime, Bone Spurs!")
