# What is Trump's Tree?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 17, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366 "2017-03-17T01:06:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/21 "2017-03-17T15:16:47Z")

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Moved from Elections to MPSIMS.

[/moderating]

Side note:

> [@wolfman](#):
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> Bigotry.

Props to this.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/22 "2017-03-17T15:27:27Z")

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Fuckstick.

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**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/23 "2017-03-17T15:39:57Z")

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I dont know all the trees in the world but its a tree that is ever unbending. It likes change too and upsets the same ole, same ole, corrupted trees.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/24 "2017-03-17T15:54:29Z")

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Oh, he’s definitely a major country.

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/25 "2017-03-17T16:41:53Z")

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Dragon Blood tree

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**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/26 "2017-03-17T16:49:21Z")

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I’m going to go with cottonwood, as it’s the shittiest, most annoying tree.

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**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/27 "2017-03-17T17:22:45Z")

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> [@wolfman](#):
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> Bigotry.

_golf clap_

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/28 "2017-03-17T17:26:31Z")

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Pussy willow.

I also liked “bigotry” and the “poplar vote” posts.

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/29 "2017-03-17T17:36:19Z")

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Sap

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/30 "2017-03-17T17:45:39Z")

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> [@Evan\_Drake](#):
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> \*‘_Old Hemlock_’  
> \*

In that it would be great if he would take some hemlock?

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/31 "2017-03-17T18:12:50Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Anything as long as it’s bonsai.

But the worlds HUGEST bonsai, of course.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/32 "2017-03-17T18:13:13Z")

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An orange tree.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/33 "2017-03-17T22:29:47Z")

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Mangrope

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/34 "2017-03-18T02:06:52Z")

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Bradford pear, unaccountably popular but ultimately a weak, undesirable tree, destroyed by the first storm.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/35 "2017-03-18T04:52:51Z")

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A stump.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/36 "2017-03-18T05:09:31Z")

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[The Upas Tree.](http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brewers/upas-tree.html)

> [@](#):
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> Applied to anything baneful or of evil influence. The tradition is that a putrid stream rises from the tree which grows in the island of Java, and that whatever the vapour touches dies.
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> On the blasted heath  
> Fell Upas sits, the hydra-tree of death.
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> _Darwin: Loves of the Plants, iii. 233._

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**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/37 "2017-03-18T05:13:46Z")

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Ugly tree.

Every branch on the way down.

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**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/38 "2017-03-18T10:12:10Z")

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Puppetry.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/39 "2017-03-18T10:30:03Z")

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> [@wolfman](#):
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> Bigotry.

…with very little branches.

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**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-tree/782366/40 "2017-03-18T10:54:45Z")

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Sophistry.

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