So, yesterday President Trump visited Andrew Jackson’s home and the question was posed - if Jackson is ‘Old Hickory’, what tree best describes President Trump?
What does the Dope think? (Here is a list of North American Trees)
I think I would go with Orange Oak.
A shoe tree.
Balsa.
A Weeping Willow: storms might shred them of limbs and leaves (companies and foundations) but they still stand.
And we weep as he flails and flays us.
Piss Pine immediately sprang to mind.
Pinus pungens
*‘Old Hemlock’
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And for Hillary, ‘Old Shadblow’, in tribute to Dryden’s vision of the poet Shadwell.
Mitt Romney: ‘Old Mitten Tree’.
Barack Obama: ‘Old Slippery Elm’.
Devil’s Walking Stick
We know he didn’t win the poplar vote.
leaves rapidly
A fire hydrant?
Nutty Pine
Bigotry.
Whatever tree he cocks his leg against - that one is his!
Anything as long as it’s bonsai.
He’s not a tree, he’s Dutch Elm Disease.
Poison Oak.
Princess Flower tree. Very showy with purple flowers. Grows like a weed and constantly sheds both leaves and flowers until you can’t see the ground for the detritus. It’s an evergreen, so there’s no season of the year when it isn’t shedding.
It’s the kind of plant I call meretricious.
Swamp Hickory
Kudzu.
Can we reclassify slime mold as a kind of tree?