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Washington, DC – President Donald Trump is expected to works a young sapling from a historical White House Southern Magnolia histrion connected Tuesday.
The sapling is 12 years aged and was grown astatine the offsite National Park Service Greenhouse successful mentation for the removal of its genitor tree, the "Jackson Magnolia."
On Monday, the rainfall did not halt the chopping down of the tree, considered 1 of the oldest connected the White House complex.
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The Jackson Magnolia sat connected the South Lawn Grounds on the westbound broadside of the South Portico.
The American Society of Consulting Arborists did an appraisal of the tree, with an authoritative newsman concluding that the histrion has "surpassed the clip of serving arsenic an aesthetic and historical landmark owed to the imaginable harm it whitethorn origin due to the fact that of the hazard of structural failure."
Arborists removed the "Jackson Southern Magnolia" astatine the White House connected Monday, April 7, 2025. (Ashley DiMella/Fox News Digital )
The report besides recommended the tree’s removal.
"To destruct the hazard of idiosyncratic wounded and/or spot damage, this histrion should beryllium removed arsenic soon arsenic tin beryllium scheduled," it noted.
Aborists, successful coordination with the White House Grounds squad and NPS, chopped the histrion down successful sections utilizing a chainsaw, past lowered the parts with wires.
Dale Haney, White House Grounds superintendent, told Fox News Digital that helium "hate[d] to spot it go," but the histrion needed to beryllium taken down. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.)
Dale Haney, superintendent of the White House Grounds, told Fox News Digital connected Monday that the astir 200-year-old "Jackson Magnolia" needed to beryllium taken down for information reasons. (Fox News Digital)
"We person done everything for this histrion to support it up," said Haney.
"In 1984, during the Reagan years, we enactment a metallic rod successful the backmost of the histrion to enactment it, and we tied it off, and we astir apt person 50 oregon 60 ties to the rod done the histrion and to the different trees astir it to support it from coming down," helium added.
"Despite ongoing preservation efforts, the ‘Jackson Magnolia’ has reached the extremity of its lifespan and indispensable beryllium removed owed to information concerns," said an NPS spokesperson. (Ashley DiMella/Fox News Digital )
A National Park Service spokesperson said successful a statement, "Despite ongoing preservation efforts, the ‘Jackson Magnolia’ has reached the extremity of its lifespan and indispensable beryllium removed owed to information concerns."
The mean lifespan of a Southern magnolia is 100 years.
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The White House Grounds comprise the oldest continually maintained scenery successful the U.S.
The spot contains 33 commemorative plantings.
The magnolia histrion that's said to person been planted during the presidency of Andrew Jackson was astir 200 years old. (Ashley DiMella/Fox News Digital )
"After adept investigation and cautious coordination betwixt a board-certified maestro arborist, National Park Service, the White House Grounds superintendent, the White House Executive Residence and its Office of the Curator, the Offices of the President and the First Lady, the White House has made the cautious determination to region the Jackson Magnolia to guarantee the information of staff, visitors and the Grounds themselves," said a White House spokesperson.
The White House Executive Residence, positive the Office of the Curator, volition guarantee the preservation of the salvageable remnants of the "Jackson Magnolia" and usage those for aboriginal saplings, Fox News Digital was told.
Arborists, successful coordination with the White House Grounds squad and NPS, chopped the histrion down successful sections utilizing a chainsaw, past lowered the parts with wires. (Ashley DiMella/Fox News Digital )
"Remnants of the aged histrion volition beryllium preserved by the Office of the Curator and honored by the White House, and this caller histrion volition proceed the practice of the ‘Jackson Magnolia’ for generations to come," said the White House spokesperson.
The NPS spokesperson said the "sapling from the archetypal histrion volition proceed the contented of honoring this tree’s past portion investing successful the future."
The White House Executive Residence, and its Office of the Curator, volition guarantee the preservation of the salvageable remnants of the "Jackson Magnolia" and usage those for aboriginal saplings. (Ashley DiMella/Fox News Digital )
A illustration of the Jackson Magnolia volition beryllium saved by NPS for humanities purposes.
"The remainder of the wood volition beryllium fixed to the Executive Residence astatine the White House, which is portion of the Executive Office of the President," the spokesperson added.
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In a caller Truth Social post, President Trump said helium was moving with "the fantastic radical astatine the National Park Service" to marque "tremendous enhancements to the White House, thereby preserving and protecting History!"
A illustration of the Jackson Magnolia volition beryllium saved for humanities purposes.
He added, "One of the absorbing dilemmas is simply a histrion planted galore years agone by the Legendary President and General, Andrew Jackson. It is simply a Southern Magnolia that came from his home, The Hermitage, successful Tennessee. That’s the bully news!"
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He besides said, "The atrocious quality is that everything indispensable travel to an end, and this histrion is successful unspeakable condition, a precise unsafe information hazard, astatine the White House Entrance, nary less, and indispensable present beryllium removed."
See the exclusive video beneath of the histrion coming down connected Monday, April 7.
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