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Trump fondles tree photos in front of baffled reporter: 'There is no precedent'

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President Donald Trump was fixated on an oddly specific, off-topic subject during an interview just days after he launched a war against Iran, according to a reporter who spoke to him. New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman met with the then-79-year-old president in March at the Oval Office, where he fondled photos of the types of greenery he wanted to choose for a White House renovation, she told Axios in a new interview . "You would think that on the 17th day of the war that he would have maps of the Middle East or maps of troop deployments — who knows," Haberman said. "He picks up these pictures, and [they're] of maple trees, and he says, 'I am choosing maple trees for the White House. I am good at picking trees.' I'm paraphrasing here, but that is pretty much what he said." Haberman is co-author , with her colleague Jonathan Swan, of "Regime Change," which has sold roughly 600,000 copies and recently logged seven straight weeks atop the Times bestseller list. Her read on Trump's p

First report: Maggie Haberman Backs Trump’s Need for Flight Decoy but Condemns His ‘Taunting’ Lies About It — thewrap.com, 1d