Trump’s bulldozers didn’t stop at the East Wing. Now even the trees are gone. Six of them, including magnolias planted to honor presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt, have been wiped out to make way for his ballroom project.
One of those trees was planted by First Lady Florence Harding back in 1922, another by Roosevelt himself in 1942. Jill Biden’s cherry tree, planted with Japan’s first lady just two years ago, is gone too. Along with them is also The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, the family theater, and the East Colonnade — all flattened.