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Topics: Barack Obama, Christmas, Donald Trump, News, US News, Twitter
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: Barack Obama, Christmas, Donald Trump, News, US News, Twitter
Donald Trump has long championed the importance of saying 'Merry Christmas', but internet sleuths have found how he addressed the nation once ahead of the day.
Donald Trump has previously complained that Christmas was under attack from the Democrats due to the term ‘happy holidays’ being used rather than ‘Merry Christmas’.
However, people have been pointing out one clear contradiction in an old X post.
During a December 2020 rally in Georgia, he even complained to the crowd about it.
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He said: “Let me begin by wishing you all a very merry Christmas. Remember the word?
"Remember? We started five years ago, and I said, 'You're gonna be saying 'Christmas' again. "We say it proudly again. Although they'll be trying to take that word again out of the vocabulary."
The following year, Trump made the brazen claim he was the reason for an alleged resurgence of 'Merry Christmas'.
According to an Irish Star report, during a Newsman Christmas special in 2021 former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, praised Trump for his work on ‘reviving’ the phrase.
Referring to the time just before the 2016 presidential election, Huckabee said: “America had [been] going into a long period where people quit saying 'Merry Christmas’.
“You deliberately changed that.”
Trump agreed and stated that America had become ‘woke’.
He continued: “It was embarrassing for stores to say 'Merry Christmas'. You'd see these big chains, they want your money but they don't want to say 'Merry Christmas'. And they'd use reds and they'd use whites and snow but they wouldn't say 'Merry Christmas'.
“When I started campaigning, I said, 'You're going to say Merry Christmas again'. And now people are saying it.
“That was a big part of what I was doing, I would say it all the time during that period ... I tell you, we brought it back very quickly."
Hilariously, X users discovered that in December in 2010, Trump was one of the individuals saying ‘happy holidays'.
In a post on December 23 of that year, he wrote: “Wishing everyone a very Happy Holiday season.”
This was in clear contrast of Barack Obama who on December 25 in 2013, he simply wrote: “Merry Christmas”, and has done so on multiple different occasions.
Some users did defend Trump by noting that it wasn’t actually Christmas day when he took to X, that year, however.
Others found it amusing, that the POTUS was guilty of the very thing he has been complaining about in recent years.