r/NationalParkService • u/nature_half-marathon • 7d ago

Question Does Andrew Jackson’s Magnolia tree at the White House really need to be cut down?

Just curious.

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u/ThistleDewRose 7d ago

oh JFC! First the rose garden and now this? They won't be happy till he's made the white house a fucking golf course... I hate this timeline.

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u/50eggs 7d ago

He does these things to distract from other things like the Signal leak. Contemptible acts like this take up headline space.

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u/12Dragon 6d ago

Honestly I don’t think HE does it for that reason. I think Trump’s got handlers that think these things through. He’s just a malicious little toddler who’s easily influenced.

I’d bet his handlers just point out things he can wreck when they need cover stories and watch as he gleefully destroys everything in his path.

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u/alltheblarmyfiddlest 5d ago

It's so excruciatingly obv he's a puppet and someone else is controlling the strings. The sun downing has gotta be intense.

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u/Expert-Suggestion-34 6d ago

I believe that as well, there's alot of smokescreen being used. Assholes.

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u/nature_half-marathon 7d ago

I don’t want that to happen at all but at least he wouldn’t profit from US tax dollars to golf at his own course in Florida.  Now, I have to Google the Rose Garden. FFS 

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u/BayouGal 6d ago

He’s planning to pave the rose garden & make it a patio

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u/hopeful7321 6d ago

No, IT is putting in a ball room ...so fantastical and never seen before...you know, ITS usual bullshit!!

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u/Sorry_Wonder5207 6d ago

If you figure out how to switch to a different timeline, please let me know.

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u/ERLRHELL 5d ago

I want to know where the time machine is and who went back and stepped on the mosquito. They need their a$$ kicked...

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u/Solenya-C137 7d ago

It's been there for almost 200 years! Most southern magnolias are lucky to make it to 100.

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u/nature_half-marathon 7d ago

Agreed. He said the NFS advised to take it down. I wasn’t sure if we add it to the leaning tower of pettiness pile. 

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u/Wise_Owl602 7d ago

Jackson is his favorite president after himself, so it very likely does have to come down. The question is, what will the gold statue of Trump look like that replaces it? Will it look like the king portrait complete with crown, or his mug shot?

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u/Euphoria_Diarrhea 7d ago

Historic and landscape preservation general guidelines say it should be replaced with either a rooted scion from the same tree, a tree/sapling from a seed of the same tree, or a tree of the same variety or subspecies.

Here's to hoping golden statues are out...

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u/Wise_Owl602 7d ago

I really hope you're right... but these are not normal times.

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u/laughingashley 7d ago

He can only name presidents who are printed on money, he doesn't actually know anything about them

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u/garden_g 5d ago

Andrew Jackson was just like him

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u/SpectralAnubis 4d ago

Andrew Jackson was easily the worst president we have ever had. Maybe not based on policies but for sure just as a human Mr Jackson was the worst!!!

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u/PlentyIndividual3168 5d ago

You know what...I almost hope he does try to put something like a statue of himself. I've been low-key hoping someone would jokingly suggest he change the name of the USA to to Trumpistan or something. Maybe THAT will reach the MAGATS

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u/Wise_Owl602 3d ago

Did you see the Trump $5 million citizenship gold card? It's a start.

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u/Resident_Chip935 7d ago

DHHS told him we don't need an infectious diseases department.

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u/sneakyope 7d ago

All Trees Matter

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u/The69Alphamale 7d ago

Tree Lives Matter

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u/Hot_Future2914 7d ago

They probably won't cut it down if you explain how many people he got killed and how much he liked white people

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 7d ago

I assume it's necessary, because it's not a statement for the admin to get rid of it.

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u/Designer_Coffee3782 6d ago

💯💯💯

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u/Helen_Kellers_Reddit 5d ago

Tell Trump that Jackson kicked the Spanish (basically European Mexicans) out of Florida and he'll love him again.

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u/Randysrodz 7d ago

He is going to make toothpicks, sell as collectible, out source to China, grift.

Tell me I'm wrong.

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u/Jeni-with-an-i 6d ago

My first thought was he is going to sell off pieces of it.

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u/picklelyjuice 7d ago

Andrew Jackson sucked but we have like, idk, a million things that are more important?

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u/CrustyBubblebrain 7d ago

Yeah. We do. And this is how they get by with fucking with a million minor things that will just demoralize people for no reason. Like renaming Mount Denali back to "Mount McKinley" (as a first day EO!) when the vast majority of Alaskans prefer the original Athabascan name. It had nothing at all to do with what actual Alaskans want, because the GOP doesn't actually give a fuck

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u/Stonner22 7d ago

That’s so sad

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u/TopBlueberry3 6d ago

I love magnolia trees.… I love shade, and birds and dappled sunlight too. Trump has no fucking taste.

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u/lotsofmaybes Where’s the bathroom?? 7d ago

Why does the White House want to cut it down? I highly doubt it’s because of the trial of tears, perhaps it’s cause Andrew Jackson was the reason the Democratic Party started and that’s all he cares about

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u/Select-Tangelo-5175 6d ago edited 6d ago

Just another rage bait to keep us off signal gate Oh yeah, and screw Tennessee where the tree came from.

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u/Intelligent-Elk8625 7d ago

Andrew Jackson was a genocidal maniac. One less thing to carry his name…

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u/Magnolia256 6d ago

Ecocide is clearly on this administrations agenda.

Also, evil hates plants and trees. The trees see the evil. So evil tries to dispose of the trees

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u/Independent-Honey453 5d ago edited 5d ago

Evil wants no witnesses.

Trees can communicate. Theres some controversy to it, but there’s also some fact to it.

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u/Magnolia256 5d ago

Trees CAN definitely communicate. There is good science establishing trees can communicate. And yes some humans just are not ready to accept that fact yet.

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u/AfterExtreme225 7d ago

No, just his enduring legacy of racism and executive overreach

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u/Icy-Celebration-568 7d ago

So cut the tree down 🙄

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u/MsMerMeeple 7d ago

I thought he loved Andrew Jackson???

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u/Historical-Bat-7644 6d ago

When a historical tree comes down it should always be used to be made into a feature of the place it was so long a part of. New doors to a rotunda or a desk or armoire. It would be a shame to just chop it down and not incorporate it somehow. A table and chairs set would be a fine way to keep it’s memory and history together.

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u/amyteresad 5d ago

Maybe he will demo the White House to make it more like Mar a Lago. Nothing surprises me anymore

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u/CatLord8 5d ago

And here I thought he idolized Jackson. He had the portrait in the Oval Office while “honoring” the code talkers that are now just “DEI” entries in our history and calling Warren ‘Pocahontas’.

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u/SubstantialHentai420 4d ago

And somehow i still know navajo tribe members who are maga. (My ex chilled out tho after ice picked up navajo people)

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u/Mountain-Monitor7564 6d ago

Oh my god it’s just so stupid at this point.

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u/birder3339 6d ago

They should let Trump cut it down, because just like George Washington and the cherry tree, he cannot tell a …. Oh, never mind.

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u/reshwash 5d ago

Did his statue?

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u/Proof-Door-7860 5d ago

Yes. It was dead. A pipe was added to the middle years ago for stability but it’s mostly dead. They had planted smaller treees around it a while ago to get a head start for when the big tree is gone.

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u/MushSnail 5d ago

Ugliness and hate.

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u/greenbeans7711 3d ago

Can it be moved somewhere where it will be appreciated??