Overview
- From Mar-a-Lago, the president joined NORAD’s Santa-tracking calls and told children the U.S. must guard against a “bad Santa” infiltrating the country.
- During one call, he told a child, “We won Pennsylvania, actually, three times,” a claim contradicted by the 2020 result and flagged by fact-checkers.
- He quipped to an eight-year-old who said she didn’t want coal that she might get “clean, beautiful coal,” invoking a favored pro-coal phrase.
- After the event, he posted a Christmas message on Truth Social that wished “Merry Christmas” to “the Radical Left Scum,” echoing campaign talking points.
- Overnight, he posted or reposted more than 100 messages on Truth Social amplifying grievances, conspiracies and election-related claims, as coverage noted a technical glitch during a separate service-members call.