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Happy Wednesday. When French President Emmanuel Macron visited the White House last week, he brought a present for President Donald Trump: an oak sapling that the two leaders planted on the South Lawn. Then, a few days later, it vanished. It turns out the tree, which had a plastic bag over its roots, was removed and put into quarantine — customary for foreign plants brought to the U.