Overview
- During NORAD’s call-in, Trump told a child he monitors Santa to make sure a “bad Santa” does not “infiltrate” the United States.
- He and the first lady took children’s calls from Mar-a-Lago in the long-running NORAD tradition linking callers to Santa’s tracked route.
- The exchange included jokes about stocking coal, with Trump calling coal “clean and beautiful.”
- In a separate holiday post, he wrote “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum,” and declared an end to open borders and to men competing in women’s sports.
- He also touted what he described as achievements—record stock markets, 4.3% GDP growth, “zero” inflation, and tariffs yielding “billions”—which outlets reported as his claims.