Trump Tweets He’s Proud to Have ‘Led the Charge Against the Assault’ on ‘Merry Christmas’

 

President Trump took to Twitter on Christmas Eve to once again bizarrely take credit for people being “proud” to say “Merry Christmas” again.

The President has made this strange claim in multiple recent appearances, despite the fact that President Obama said that precise phrase every year of his presidency. Maybe the concern is that President Obama polluted the two words “Merry Christmas” with extraneous additional qualifiers since in 2013 and 2016 he added the word “everybody” at the end and in 2012 prefaced it with “Michele and I want to wish you a. . .”

Twitter was quick to react:

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