D.E.D, dead.
Emmanuel Macron gave President Trump a live oak as symbol of friendship. They made a big photo-op dealio out of planting the thing using a golden shovel.
Psst. Don't tell anyone. Whispers: It's a regular shovel spray-painted gold. Trump is like Midas he likes everything gold.
It was all show.
The tree was immediately dug up and placed in quarantine as all live trees must. Whereupon by chance or perhaps by neglect or maybe even by lack of genuine friendship the tree perished.
And let this be a lesson.
Whenever passing off an oak tree to represent enduring friendship between nations, pick one with leaves on it.
Or else you're actually saying, "Here, have some sticks of friendship."
"I was never actually a gardener type."
But that's the thing. We gardener types learn by making mistakes.
We're thinking, maybe it was the gold paint on the shovel.
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