President Donald Trump has waged war against many things (the NFL, the NBA, The Apprentice, Meryl Streep) but his latest battle has been against people wishing one another “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas.” On Christmas Eve, Trump tweeted this message, in which he appears to single-handedly take credit for “leading the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase.”
People are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again. I am proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 25, 2017
Back in October, Trump had told the audience: “We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values.”
“We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore. They don’t use the word ‘Christmas’ because it’s not politically correct, you go to department stores and they’ll say ‘Happy New Year,’ or they’ll say other things and it’ll be red, they’ll have it painted… Well, guess what? We’re saying ‘Merry Christmas!’ again.”
Some Trump supporters saw this as a wonderful execution of a campaign promise.
The candidate @realDonaldTrump
promised to bring "Merry Christmas" back. And on his first Noel as President @POTUS surely has done that and more…
Under President Trump, America’s Best Years Are Yet to Come.MERRY CHRISTMAS AMERICA
🎄🎅🎁🎄🎅🎁🎄🎅🎁🎄🎅 pic.twitter.com/M8lFUZw379— 💐Gigi💐 (@LovelyGigi33) December 25, 2017
During the campaign, Mr Trump promised to bring the term "Merry Christmas" back to the United States.
Promise made, promise delivered.
Merry Christmas, Mr President.#MerryChristmas pic.twitter.com/UwWrf4ZUcN
— Mike (@Fuctupmind) December 25, 2017
But mostly, people were pointing out that A) nobody ever stopped saying ‘Merry Christmas’…
To all those gathered in celebration today, Merry Christmas.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 25, 2009
https://twitter.com/dovesrose5/status/945139393148456960
No one, except maybe you, ever stopped saying it.
— Debra (@sydnegrl) December 25, 2017