First lady Jill Biden on Monday welcomed the White House Christmas tree. It stands 18.5-feet tall, 13-feet wide and is 20 years old.
The tree arrived at 3 p.m. ET in a horse and buggy to the front pillars of the White House while “O Christmas Tree” played.
It came all the way from Paul and Pam Shealer’s Evergreen Acres Tree Farm in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The Shealer family attended the delivery.
The first lady was asked, “How do you like the tree?”
She responded: “I love the tree! How do you like the tree?”
Biden, her grandson Beau Biden Jr., and the Shealer family, then gathered to take a photo with the tree.
Paul Shealer explained following their photo taking that the tree won a national competition last year and that’s how the tree made it to the White House.
“It’s a concolor fir, it was planted about 20 years ago and it was in a patch of trees that we ended up harvesting, but there was something special about this tree. So, we decided to keep it just for this event,” Shealer said.
“We were successful enough to win the national competition last year and that gave us the honor to put this tree here in the White House,” he added.
It is a White House tradition to have Christmas events for the tree, decorations and parties.
The official White House Christmas Tree has arrived, with First Lady Jill Biden and her grandson welcoming the tree from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/KZT0cQRG9i
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) November 21, 2022
