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No George Washington is not chopping down tress to this day. He died December 14, 1799.
The George Washington myth was a story that Parson Locke Weems made up portraying how honest George Washington was. The story involved George chopping down his father's cherry tree as a young boy, his father asks him if he chopped the cherry tree down and George tells him that he "cannot tell a lie."
No, George Washington chopped his left testicle off while cutting down the oak tree in his backyard.
He invented the tale of the Cherry Tree. The myth was that when he was a little boy, George chopped down a cherry tree. When his father asked about it, George replied, "I cannot tell a lie," and admitted his act. This was used to demonstrate the perceived image of Washington as scrupulously honest.
George Wahington cut his father's cherry tree down. When he was asked about it, he told the truth.