Lighting the White House Christmas tree is one of those feel-good ceremonies that’s almost impossible for a president to ruin. That is, until Donald Trump lights the White House Christmas tree in 2025.
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Lighting the tree usually involves the president standing and talking about how Christmas brings us all together, and some things potentially from a Hallmark Christmas movie or two.
It is a rather light moment which constitutes a new step on the road leading to the end of the political year.
This was all true until the degraded version of Donald Trump came onto the scene.
The same day, Trump told reporters:
I was with a gentleman, the future king of Saudi Arabia, and you heard me say this many times, but two months ago when I was there, he said, uh, and actually Qatar is represented today and you, the UAE, are represented and your leader said exactly the same thing, different words, but exactly the same thing as a year ago, they thought our country was dead.
Trump was in Saudi Arabia almost seven months ago, and MBS was in the White House two weeks ago, not two months ago, so Trump doesn’t seem to have any concept of time or what’s going on.
Someone decided it was a great idea to let this nearly 80-year-old man out after dark and let him light the White House Christmas tree.
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