Overview
- From Mar-a-Lago, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump fielded roughly a dozen NORAD Santa-tracker calls with children before calling U.S. service members on duty.
- Answering a question from Oklahoma, Trump said NORAD tracks Santa to ensure the U.S. does not get “a bad Santa” infiltrating the country.
- When a Kansas girl said she did not want coal, he replied “You mean clean, beautiful coal,” later adding, “Coal is clean and beautiful. Please remember that, at all costs.”
- Responding to a North Carolina child about cookies, he said Santa would not be mad but “very disappointed,” describing Santa as “cherubic” and advising to leave treats out.
- After the calls, he posted on Truth Social wishing “Merry Christmas… including the Radical Left Scum,” as outlets also flagged his incorrect on-call claim that he had won Pennsylvania “three times.”