Trump takes NORAD Santa calls from kids. Here's what he said.

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Updated Dec. 24, 2025, 7:20 p.m. ET


It's Christmas Eve in Mar-a-Lago, and the first couple talked with children as part of NORAD's Santa calls. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump participated in the longstanding holiday tradition for over 20 minutes, seated in gold-trimmed armchairs near a Christmas tree. The president spoke to families on speakerphone while the first lady chatted with children on a handset.

Trump asked children what they wanted from Santa Claus, peppered praise for states that he won in the 2024 election, and touted the most recent GDP report in banter with reporters in the room. "Great numbers, great financials. I don’t think the kids are too interested in that," Trump said.

Among the comments Trump made to children:

When asked by a child from Oklahoma why Santa Claus is being tracked, he said: "We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we are not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa." He also told the child, "Don’t ever leave Oklahoma."

After being told that a child did not want coal as a gift, he responded: "You mean clean, beautiful coal. I had to do that, I'm sorry." He added to "please remember at all costs" that coal is "clean and beautiful."

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/24/donald-trump-melania-norad-santa-christmas-eve-calls/87911347007/

[Chasstev365]

1. Aside from being a narcissistic pedo fraudster:

Donald Trump is one of the most awkward human beings ever!

[underpants]

5. 🎄

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/us/video/trump-norad-santa-tracker-hotline-digvid

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. How about a HUGE pile of "Clean coal" dumped at M-a-L?

Then see how "clean and beautiful" it is when it gets cleaned up!

[GB_RN]

3. Were It Literally ANYONE Else...

And I’d have called bullshit on this. Not even Bush II, or Danforth “Potatoe” Quayle would have said something this unbelievably ridiculous and stupid.

As it is, all I can do is 🤦‍♂️

Goddamn him. Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent has to be one of the top (bottom?) dumbest and most evil assholes in history. (Note: that’s BOTH evil and stupid. Hitler was evil, not necessarily stupid. Putin is evil, but definitely not stupid.)

[twodogsbarking]

4. Anti-Santa. He promises you everything and then takes it all for himself. You had better watch out.

You had better not cry, Anti-Santa is attacking your town.

[Wonder Why]

6. So what did you give me for Christmas, you stupid little brat?

[Timeflyer]

7. What sweet childhood memories he's creating for these children. Think how their grandkids will thrill

to stories of their ancestors' brush with the worst, most corrupt piece of filth to ever defile American democracy.

[FakeNoose]

22. I'm hoping these kids' parents were monitoring the calls. I want to believe they hung up

... so their own kid's Christmas wasn't ruined by this oafish asshole. Can you imagine?
What is wrong with that fuckin' guy?

[Orrex]

8. He should have stroked out on camera

Of course, that's true every day, but even moreso in this case.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. It's ALWAYS about HIM. . .

JFC

[Botany]

10. That was not a regular human being's responses to a child's question or statement that was Donny's..

mental illness and diseases speaking. He is now 100% out to lunch.

[bagimin]

11. He is one sick

SOB

[Attilatheblond]

16. That's why his own family 'makes other plans'

and he has to shanghai stranger's kids via commandeering an annual even NORAD probably looks forward to as stress relief.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. What is that makes Deplorable voters choose the biggest imbecile they can find to be their "leader?"

[Playingmantis]

13. I thought this was a joke..like the Onion..

But ITS TRUE!

How sick is this dumbass?

Oh and Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all

[bmichaelh]

14. Coal as a gift

Does Trump not know that in some traditions, coal is a gift for naughty children?

[PSPS]

15. Certainly nothing like it used to be

This is the intro to this film:

[twodogsbarking]

17. Trump is creepy. Melaaaaaaniaaaaaaah is too.

[SupportSanity]

18. There's a movie titled "Bad Santa" that is worth watching starring Billie Bob Thornton. Trump as Santa?

There's an even more extreme version of it called "Badder Santa". Maybe that would be appealing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Santa

[cstanleytech]

19. Kids expecting Santa instead got a Satan wannabe and yes, that isn't a misspelling.

[Maeve]

20. He also told one little girl she sounded "beautiful and cute" then asked her age

She was eight.
But he commented on her apparent looks because that is how females are judged.

[Aussie105]

21. The Onion shows the Santa tracker having Santa stop for 40 minutes at an old girlfriend's place.

Mrs Claus back at the North Pole is aware and not amused.

As for 'clean, beautiful coal', yes indeed it is, compared to the industrial sludge in Trump's head and spread across the R party.