Overview
- Participating from Mar-a-Lago with First Lady Melania, the president took roughly a dozen NORAD Santa-tracker calls with children on Christmas Eve.
- He told youngsters the U.S. must not let a 'bad Santa' 'infiltrate' the country and quipped that coal is 'clean and beautiful' when a caller said she did not want coal.
- Speaking to a Pennsylvania family, he claimed he had won the state 'three times,' a statement outlets noted was incorrect because he lost there in 2020.
- After the calls, he posted on Truth Social wishing a 'Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum,' reiterating familiar political talking points.
- Clips from the calls spread widely on social platforms, drawing both praise and ridicule, as coverage also noted NORAD’s 70th year of the Santa-tracking program.