Washington, April 29 (TNS): A tree gifted to President Donald Trump by French President Emmanuel Macron has disappeared.
The pair planted the sapling, taken from the site of a World War One battle in north-east France, during Mr Macron’s state visit last week.
Mr Macron said the tree would be a reminder of “these ties that bind us”.
But a photographer on Saturday took a shot of only a yellow patch of grass on the White House south lawn where the tree once stood.
The tree, a European sessile oak, came from the site of the Battle of Belleau Wood, which took place in the summer of 1918.
Nearly 2,000 US soldiers died in the battle north-east of Paris.
Yet only four days after it was planted, the sapling has disappeared.
