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Ah, Christmas: a time of peace, happiness, goodwill for all, and insisting for the umpteenth time that you won the 2020 presidential election.
That’s according to President Donald TrumpJoe couldn’t resist punctuating his festive presidential phone calls with children and service members on Christmas Eve with his trademark partisan score-settling.
“Pennsylvania is great. We actually won Pennsylvania three times,” the president falsely claimed while chatting with a five-year-old boy calling from the Keystone State to check in. Santa’s location according to NORAD(Fact check: Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020,
“Oklahoma was very good to me in the election. That’s why I love Oklahoma,” he told a 4-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy in Sapulpa.
“The country is doing well! We saved our country,” he insisted on a call from a family living near Tacoma in Washington state.
A separate call with service members was interrupted due to technical difficulties, causing a complete loss of audio and video.
“I think the enemy is doing that,” Trump joked. Before his colleagues started throwing the journalists out of the room.
Later, the President issued an even more encouraging Christmas message on his social network Truth Social. “Merry Christmas to everyone, including the radical left scum who are trying everything they can to destroy our country but are failing miserably,” he said angrily.
“We are honored again, perhaps never before. God Bless America!!! President DJT.”
The US President traditionally answers the calls of various children on Christmas Eve As they telephone to get updates from NORAD about Santa’s current location(Fact check: Santa is invisible to radar, and cannot be tracked by any known US government technology,)
“We track Santa all over the world. We want to make sure Santa’s good,” Trump told a four-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy in Oklahoma. “We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrating – that we’re not having a bad Santa intruding into our country.”
But, he added, “We learned that Santa is good. Santa loves you. Santa loves Oklahoma, like I do… Never leave Oklahoma, okay?”
“okay I’ll try!” The children’s mother said in a slightly uncertain tone.
In another exchange, Trump praised 10-year-old Spencer from Washington state for wanting a Kindle for Christmas. Trump said, “Oh wow, this is great.” “You have to be a person with high IQ. We need more high IQ people in the country.”
On a call with a family in Pennsylvania, the mother told her child: “We love President Trump, right?” “Yes!” The child announced. Trump was pleased, telling her: “I bet your mom voted OK!”
Then there was the girl who said she didn’t want Santa to bring her coal. “You mean, clean, beautiful coal?” Trump said with a big smile and mock incredulity. “I had to do that, I’m sorry. Coal is clean and beautiful! Please remember this at all costs.”
Trump had delivered another Christmas message earlier that day on Truth SocialIn which he rants about late-night talk show hosts whom he hates, before shouting: “Merry Christmas!!!”
Regarding his Christmas call with children, MAGA supporters enjoyed the jokes, but left-leaning social media users were less impressed. Journalist Ron Filipowski said, “The little kid just wants to hear about Santa and Trump wants to talk about himself again.” on bluesky,
Bluesky and other users on declared: “We hope Santa gives him coal.”
Trump famously came close to killing the game during a similar event in 2018, When he asked a young girl: “Do you still believe in Santa? Because at seven years old, that’s marginal, right?”