President Donald Trump‘s merry Christmas statement to the nation on Wednesday night included several digs at his political opponents.
Trump is spending the Christmas and New Year’s holidays at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in West Palm Beach, Florida. According to reporters traveling with the president, he attended a private Christmas Eve dinner at Mar-a-Lago, during which he posted a lengthy statement to Truth Social.
“Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” Trump wrote before launching into a list of his claimed accomplishments over the past year.
“We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, or Weak Law Enforcement. What we do have is a Record Stock Market and 401K’s, Lowest Crime numbers in decades, No Inflation, and yesterday, a 4.3 GDP, two points better than expected,” he continued. “Tariffs have given us Trillions of Dollars in Growth and Prosperity, and the strongest National Security we have ever had. We are respected again, perhaps like never before. God Bless America!!!”
Earlier in the evening, Trump made several phone calls to U.S. service members, in addition to participating in the annual NORAD Santa Claus calls.
During the latter, Trump opted to conduct his calls over speakerphone to give reporters insight into his conversations with the children.
“We track Santa all over the world. We want to make sure that Santa is being good,” Trump said during one exchange with a child from Oklahoma. “We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrating — that we’re not infiltrating into our country a band Santa. So we found out that Santa is good. Santa loves you.”
TRUMP LAUGHS WHEN CHILDREN ASK ABOUT COOKIES AND COAL DURING ANNUAL SANTA CLAUS CALLS
One caller, a young girl from North Carolina, made Trump laugh with a question about what would happen if she did not leave out milk and cookies for Santa.
“I think he won’t get mad, but I think he’ll be very disappointed. You know Santa, he tends to be a little bit on the cherubic side. You know what that means? You’re big, a little on the heavy side,” Trump responded. “I think Santa would like some cookies. I think Santa has a serious appetite.”