From AFP via the SCMP:
French president offered young oak to Donald Trump during state visit in 2018
The photograph was seen around the world: US President Donald Trump and
France’s Emmanuel Macron,
gilded spades in hand, shovelling dirt over a
young sapling. File photo: TNS
The photo of Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron planting an oak tree in the garden of the White House symbolised the friendship shown by the two leaders.
But relations between them have since frayed – over issues ranging from Iran to trade – and the tree, a diplomatic source said this week, did not survive....MORE
