Trump Family Christmas Card Wishes Families ‘Merry Christmas’ Instead of ‘Happy Holidays’
President Trump is fulfilling his promise to bring back “Merry Christmas” to the White House by including the phrase in his 2017 White House Christmas card.
The Trump family is taking a different approach with their holiday greeting than the Obama family, who opted to use the more generic phrase “Happy Holidays” in their greetings, according to the Daily Mail.
The White House unveiled the card, which is signed by President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and their 11-year-old son Barron Trump, on Monday in the White House “Bookseller’s” area after revealing the Christmas decorations to the public.
A gold presidential seal adorns the front of the card while the inside of the card includes the phrase “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” with the first family’s signatures at the bottom.
Trump made a promise on the campaign trail to bring back the use of the phrase “Merry Christmas” around the holiday season. He began using the phrase around the holidays on his “Thank You” tour in Wisconsin in December 2016.
The president reiterated his promise at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC, in October when he told the crowd of activists at the conference that he would support the use of the word Christmas again.
“We’re saying Merry Christmas again,” he told the crowd. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/28/trump-family-christmas-card-wishes-families-merry-christmas-instead-happy-holidays/
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it is nice to see christmas in our house again.
and those kids were right... melania does look like an angel.
Wow, he can ignore every other religion in America, I am so impressed. I am creating my own new tradition and will only say Happy Holidays.
Uh, what is Christmas all about anyway??
Obama was raised as a Muslim so we can understand why he was biased against against Christmas.
I say Merry Christmas because that is my sentiment. People should say what their sentiment is and the receiver should accept it gracefully. Act like adults.
People who get offended either way need to remove the corn cobb from their butt and learn to live and let live.
WAY too much PC is this world now.
"Stay Thirsty, My Friends" is my greeting this year.
What a world shaking article. /s
Lego's and gingerbread houses...It must be Satanical.
Just to get you up to date. A major hotel in Branson MO. (that's in the middle of the Bible belt and fly over America) for Christmas every year have a yuge display of gingerbread houses. I'll go down there this year and get some photos for you.
I guess that you'll publish an article telling us what heathens they are in Branson../s
Geez imagine walking around that place in the middle of the night, on your way to take a pee. Be stepping on those damn things non-stop.
No Spike, the hotel as bathrooms in your room. We are very modern down here in the Ozarks. Really we are.
I was talking about the Lego gingerbread houses in the White House that you put in your comment.......lighten up, Homey.
Lighten up, homey.....LOL, I've been called a lot of things but never a homey.
If your going to address me that way, please use the term ''Shinob''...That's what us red homey's are you know...
I guess you missed the humor in my comment. Time for you to lighten up homey...
I live about 4 hours from Branson. I would love some really good ginger bread.
I shall leave a trail of ginger bread 4 hours out from Branson...What direction?
south east
OMG, your somewhere in Texas...Oh, wait, I had the map upside down.
You had me going there for a moment...I had to rethink and thought "did I get my directions wrong again?"
I hope everyone has a happy Santa Claus holiday. Santa is the reason for the season.
Something to think about.
Gimme, gimme, gimme..Santa.
I tire of the comparisons. Regardless of what is on the White House cards, Americans celebrate throughout the season.
As a Christian, my being sensitive to others and their traditions is far more important than the words "Merry Christmas"! I send Happy Hanukkah cards, Merry Christmas cards, funny snowman cards to our family and friends...all of whom know what I celebrate. I think it's called respect!
It's also a sign of respect and sensitivity if one's sending out masses of cards to people of all faiths or none to wish everyone a "Happy Holidays" which really is an affirmation of our founding principle that no religious faith or tradition has dominance in this country, no matter how badly some adherents want to dominate. Unless Trump's card is only going to Christians, he's basically telling those who aren't to shove it.
Since sensitivity or respect is currently not resident in our White House, the idea that the President of the entire nation would extend a greeting to all people regardless of religion, culture, or creed is not surprising.
Our President no longer disappoints, shocks or requires an explanation for his actions...after 11 months we know exactly what to expect.
Most SENSIBLE Christians say BOTH "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" and decorate their homes to reflect that. "Happy Holidays" did not start out as a way to demean Christmas. It was a phrase to recognize the "holiday" season which begins in the US on Thanksgiving and runs until New Years (some people consider the holidays to end on the Epiphany (Jan 6). The Jewish holidays of Hanukkah also takes place in the time period.
The song "Happy Holiday" was written in 1942, long before anyone knew what "political correctness" was or would become. The song has always been considered a Christmas season song.
The seeded article is pretty silly. It says Melania Trump has turned the white house into a "winter wonderland" ? What does that have to do with the birth of Jesus? It says the decorations are "magical" . I think they used to burn people at the stake for associating magic with Christianity.
The fact is that "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" co-exist, and always have.
Most sensible Americans. How would you know anything about sensible people in America? You are far too disconnected to have a feel for 'most of'.
Many of the commenters here on this article are the 'looking for something Trump did to hurt my butt today' crowd.
If you already haven't please heed my advice this time.
Buy as much Pfizer stock as you can, as soon as you can. You see, they make Prep-H. It follows that "butt hurt" is their business and business had been good! So buy low now with demand high. Then you can sell off right after the next Democrat gets elected POTUS and demand goes down precipitously. Sell high, make a killing.
Pfizer's new motto"
"Making a killing on butt hurt since 2016"
Looks like Deleted for skirting. D. Trump's only presidential talent.
Deleted for context. D.
That's really bad and uncalled for.
Have Mercy!
I was raised a Christian. I'm still a Christian and I call out the fake ones. How do you like that for religious freedom? I'll bet that's the same card the moron in chief sent Ivankahumpalot's in-laws.
Yes
I'll ask the first one on the right I find.
I look forward to watching random acts of patriotism committed against dominionists caught on surveillance cameras.
They're his base! He has to keep them happy
Nothing new, considering Obama Deleted as Deleted for skirting D. Sorry Bruce.
Osama Bin Laden, suck on that.
skirting the CoC [ph]
I believe Dennis Hastert is the ranking rightwing authority on those subjects.
Same dude.
didn't know you weren't a Christian
And nobody calls me Un-American and gets away with it. I served my country, too, dammit, so I'm as much as an American as you are. You may not be Christian, but I AM an American
Yay, the war on Xmas is over! Now's a really good time for an evangelical petition to get the creche placed on the lawn in front of the alt-white house.
You said Osama should have been covered in pig shit them shoved into the ocean or something to that effect. That's not a proper send-off
How about being more clear in what you are saying and stop contradicting your own posts, then maybe you'll get back what you send out
And don't call me Un-American ever again! I won't stand for it!
I guess I have more Christian values than you do. I'm pretty sure Father Bob wouldn't approve of someone being covered in pig blood and shit then buried.
Father Bob would approve of a burial at sea, which I also approve of.
p.s. Let's change Christian to Humanitarian. I believe other people of other faiths wouldn't approve of your burial method, either
The people that get upset by things like this need to get over themselves.
Don't like "Merry Christmas" for one reason or another? Don't say it and don't pay attention to those that do. Getting pissed off when others use it accomplishes nothing but raising your blood pressure.
Live and let live .... words to live by.
I agree entirely, now, if we could only get those Christians at Fox News to understand.
Hey, i agree that some folks can get obnoxious with it. If i know it really bothers someone i don't use it if possible but it grates me to no end when someone tries to tell me i can't use it because of THEIR beliefs or lack thereof. If i EVER use it relentlessly that's why because some prick is trying to tell me i can't.
Live and let live is not a one way street. Many on both sides seem to think that it is.
That's why I use Happy Holidays, it includes all.
And you're a Christian, aren't you?
I think everyone (especially those who hate Happy Holidays) is forgetting that Holiday is actually two words making one word
Holy Day
Happy Festivus everyone.
I just say, Niibaa' anami'egiizhigad, aabita biboon, Ya'll.
Confuses some people, but that's ok, I love the look on their faces.
Ok, slowly now . . . it's a Christmas card. Therefore, it says "Merry Christmas." He may yet do something to acknowledge other holidays.
For example, on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, he sent out messages (including video) to Jews.
But if you need a political leader to validate you on your religious holiday, that says more about you and your faith than it does about the politician.
Ok, slowly now . . . it's a Christmas card. Therefore, it says "Merry Christmas." He may yet do something to acknowledge other holidays.
But not Islam of course:
Donald Trump ends decades-long White House tradition of celebrating Ramadan with iftar dinner
President George W Bush hosted the dinner every year for his two terms, including just after the 9/11 attacks. He said at the dinner that the fight was against terrorism, not Islam.
Islam=Terrorism
I lived in Turkey during two 'Ramadans'. Not a lot of fun. Pissed off, unhappy, hungry people, all the restaurants put paper up over their windows so those fasting wouldn't walk by and have to see people eating (which is thoughtful).
If that's the case, the republicans will be nominating him for a Senate seat.
Nonsense is certainly a subject you seem to be trying own. No one "gives" people jobs in Hollywood, they earn them or not. Unlike politics, where republicans repeatedly elect unqualified nominees. Not even a good try.
People really need to just take a chill pill. Just take the seasonal greetings in the spirit in which it was intended.
This year, my retort to those that use saying Merry Xmas as act of religious intimidation, will be go fuck yourself thumper.
Yup. No quarter given to born again trash.
50 years ago. Has it changed again recently?
I've thought about this. This site is supposed to be adults but very few of us act like it. I'll admit, that at times I haven't. But to get your panties in a wad because somebody said "Merry Christmas" vs "Happy Holidays" is a flat out childish.
If hearing "Merry Christmas" offends you, I recommend you just get over yourself. You were not physically or mentally injured. You just perceive you have. Deal with it..
On the flip side, if hearing "Happy Holidays" offends you, I recommend you just get over yourself. You were not physically or mentally injured. You just perceive you have. Deal with it..
Either way, it's a greeting or a wish of well being. Degrading the person who says it not only shows how thin skinned you really are but it also increases the possibility of you being treated like a child. Grow the fuck up people. The vast majority of us do not go out of our way to piss you children off by saying "Merry Christmas".