Overview
- Participating in NORAD’s Santa-tracking hotline from Mar-a-Lago, Trump told children authorities “track Santa all over the world” to ensure “we don’t let a bad Santa into our country.”
- He promoted coal during the calls, telling a child it is “clean” and “beautiful” after she said she did not want coal for Christmas.
- In a Christmas Eve Truth Social post, he wished “Merry Christmas” to “the scum of the radical left” and asserted policy successes, including no open borders, low crime, no inflation and 4.3% GDP growth, presented as his claims.
- Trump and First Lady Melania also fielded children’s questions and the president offered holiday greetings to U.S. service members, including forces operating near Venezuela.
- The comments drew broad media and social-media attention, and the coverage reported no accompanying policy changes.