Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’

October 10, 2026 · 8:57 pm 1 sources

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• Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’
  The Guardian · October 10, 2026 20:57
  Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head A 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border , known as the “grandmother”, has been destroyed to make way for the construction of Donald Trump ’s border wall, despite a…