Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, together with their wives, planted a tree in front of the White House. And immediately became a meme

French President Emmanuel Macron, along with his wife Brigitte Macron, flew to the United States on an official three-day visit. As a gift to the American presidential couple, they brought an oak sapling from Belleau Wood, a French forest that American troops recaptured from the German army in World War I (and Trump, in response, carefully brushed dandruff off Macron's suit). They decided to plant the tree on the lawn of the White House; this was to become a symbolic gesture of the friendship of peoples. But something went wrong.

The photo, in which the presidents of France and the United States plant a tree with their own hands, and their wives in full dress watch this, immediately became a meme. Many felt that Donald Trump had finally done something useful:

They joked about the picture that it was a frame from a series or a movie:

Music album cover:

And, of course, there were suggestions that the presidents were burying someone's corpse:

Announcement photo: Oliver Contreras / Sipa USA / Scanpix / LETA