Trump Declares He's Bringing 'Merry Christmas' Back: 'I Want Merry Christmas!'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

Towards the end of a speech at the Heritage Foundation purportedly about pitching his tax reform plan, President Donald Trump went on a riff about the War on Christmas and the use of the term Merry Christmas.

Telling the crowd that he wanted to give them the best Christmas present of all in massive tax relief, Trump took the opportunity to go on about how stores dont post signs saying Merry Christmas and people dont use the saying anymore.

I will give you a bigger Christmas present, Trump stated. Youre gonna be saying Merry Christmas again. Youre gonna say Merry Christmas.

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I want them to say, Merry Christmas, he exclaimed. Everybody. Happy New Year. Happy Holidays. But I want Merry Christmas. Its happening already. You know it. You know its happening again.

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-declares-hes-bringing-merry-christmas-back-i-want-merry-christmas/

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In a speech on tax reform at the Heritage Foundation.

Dementia.

[LisaM]

1. Yeah, everything about him screams "Merry Christmas!"

Honestly, he's the least Christmas-like figure I've ever seen in my life.

[hibbing]

2. We choose to do these things

Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. What an ambitious path he has set before us.


Peace

[oberliner]

3. We have to stop taking his bait

News programs should stop covering this crap and start asking him hard questions and staying on real issues.

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. This

[onecent]

50. Amen to THAT!!!

[vlyons]

5. Doofus

I'm to the point now, that every appearance, every tweet, is just another Trump slapstick moment. The only question is how many and what kind of pratfalls will he show us?

[Maraya1969]

33. I didn't expect to laugh but I did - several times!

[onecaliberal]

6. I want him to fuck off

[virtualobserver]

7. not dementia....just naked pandering to idiots

embrace their cult beliefs and they will follow you anywhere

[Blue_Tires]

24. +1

[edbermac]

8. Yeah who gives a shit about health care, hurricanes, mass shootings, possible nuclear war...

Glad to get rid of the Kenyan Mooslim and have a President who has his priorities in order.

[jmowreader]

9. Fuck him

I will not, for the rest of Trump's misguided and ill-gotten administration, allow the words "Merry Christmas" to pass through my lips.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Me neither. I will make a point of not saying it

[kimmylavin]

12. You know...

I used to say "Merry Christmas."
It made me happy, and it felt nice.

Now, I feel like if I say it to anyone, they won't take it as a well-wish, but as a sign that I'm some kind of hyper culture-warrior.

I'm an atheist, and I think that this turn of events would depress Jesus Christ himself.

[blueinredohio]

11. It will be a "Merry Christmas" if Trump and company are out of office by then

[mdbl]

43. that's the only Xmas present I want

to not hear that dumbf78k's lies spewed all over the new.

[SergeStorms]

13. What color is the sky in Trumpworld?

He sure as hell isn't living in the same reality as the rest if us. I thought this "war on christmas" shit was over? No one has been bitching about it for years, but right on schedule here comes the 'Grinch That Stole An Election', dragging this bullshit "issue" back to the surface. I believe he has a notebook that he scribbled lines in for the past 20 years, things that made him angry, words he didn't know the meaning of, what the weather was like that day.....and then he reads them while taking a shit and decides to resurrect them.

What a fucking idiot. Well, I'm going to make a point of saying "HAPPY FUCKING HOLIDAYS to everyone this year. I think I'll make a sign to that effect, and stand outside the White House for a week or so. JUST TO PISS THAT ORANGE ASSHOLE OFF.

[ancianita]

16. I feel you. And like the way you think. Cool. You GO!

[Grammy23]

14. I am curious how the hell he thinks he will force us to say Merry Christmas?

Does this dullard not realize that not everyone in the US celebrates Christmas? And even many of those who do really do not care what sentiment is spoken or written.

So does he plan legislation that would mandate the appropriate greeting? And what if we slip up and say Happy Holidays? Or write merry Xmas? What if we remain silent and don’t return the favor with the official greeting? Will we be arrested? I can see Barney Fife running amok writing tickets for our offense.

Someone please stop this madness. It is just silliness on steroids.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Put Christ back in ???

[CatMor]

17. One definition of the word merry is happy....

so we can say Happy Christmas. That way we will have Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year or to make it easy we can just say Happy Holidays. With all the important issues facing the country, trump the mental midget is talking about something as unimportant as Merry Christmas.

[DK504]

18. "I want them to say, Merry Christmas, he exclaimed. "

Does he want his pinkie too?

[hatrack]

19. How about a massive coronary under the tree for the Orange Fuckstick?

Or a stroke (better yet) that leaves him incapacitated, removed from office and pissing down a tube for 20 years, so he'll have plenty of miserable time left on earth?

That's how I spell "Merry Christmas."

[JohnnyRingo]

20. I'll be able to say Merry Xmas!

It'll be a nice touch during the upcoming holidays.

Maybe WalMart will tear down the Christmas tree and put up a giant cross. Next week.

[Judi Lynn]

21. Merry Christmas, you fucking moron. n/t

[Initech]

22. Someone really needs to take Fox News away from him.

He's only saying this shit because he has that god damn piece of shit network on 24/7.

People who don't watch Fox News don't care about this crap!

[TomSlick]

23. My favorite quote from English literature:

"If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."

However, that is not usually an appropriate response to someone wishing me a "Merry Christmas."

Does someone have a socially acceptable response to "Merry Christmas?" At this point I will be damned if the words "Merry Christmas" pass my lips this year.

[WinkyDink]

26. "Happy New Year!"

[TomSlick]

29. Socially acceptable but doesn't get my point across.

I want something that says "I'd normally wish you a Merry Christmas but that the Dotard can't tell me what to say," just more pithy.

[xxqqqzme]

34. Had a friend born on

December 25 His name was Gus. He would say "Happy Gus-mas". He even had buttons made. I still have mine. So there you are - Happy Gus-mas to honor my friend.

[Hugin]

35. Season's Greetings is my go-to.

It's an all inclusive sentiment.

[Retrograde]

41. "You too"

I'd say the same if someone wished me a happy Hannukah, Kwanza, Diwali, Nooroz, Eid, or any other holiday I don't celebrate.

I have bigger battles to fight and little energy to spare these days for media/RW created tizzies.

[dalton99a]

25. Fucking moron.

[Demtexan]

27. Who stops anybody from saying Merry Christmas.

Just another thing to stir the pot.

Happy Holidays everyone.

[Dave Starsky]

42. Just a lot of B.S. Like prayer in schools.

As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in schools.

Just not organized, established prayer.

[bdtrppr6]

28. i will never utter the phrase again.

"Happy Saturnalia" it is, from here out.

It has been decreed!

Christmas is dead.

I signed an Excretive Order.

[C_U_L8R]

30. How about bringing our soldiers back ?

Or bringing our healthcare back?
Or resigning and bringing dignity back to the office?

[marylandblue]

31. I bet he says Merry Christmas to Ivanka just for kicks

[bitterross]

32. FFS - The Xmas stuff is on the store shelves already

Like Christmas is ignored in the country - seriously?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

36. The Daily Show had a segment last year where they played clip after clip of Obama saying

"Merry Christmas." Fuck you, Trump and Fox News.

[sakabatou]

37. Unless it's the 24th or 25th of Dec.

I don't say Merry Christmas.

[Doreen]

38. OK, lets say "Merry Christmas."

But I suggest we say it in the two languages that come from his most disliked countries. Say it in Spanish and German. He'll get his damn "Merry Christmas" just in a way he would never understand. I bet dollars to doughnuts he could not tell the difference between the two. Either would drive him up the wall even more.

[Norbert]

39. We have all died and gone to hell

Hell is worse than I ever imagined.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

40. Yes, Donald Trump!

Putting "what in Christ's name is going on here" back in Christmas.

[mahina]

44. Somewhere, there's a Republican for whom this insult to their intelligence is the last straw.

[Trueblue Texan]

45. Well, it's too bad he's defiled the phrase...

I'm an Atheist and I say Merry Christmas all the time. I celebrate Christmas because it's so damn fun and it's a great day to spend loving family and friends and community. I even like the myth of the virgin and the baby, even though for me, it's just myth. Too bad the guy in the oval office has ruined the phrase for me. I don't want to say anything he pushes for fear someone will think I'm offering approval of him.

[TomSlick]

46. I think I've got it!

Gaelic: Nollaig shona dhuit

Pronounciation: Null-eg hunna ghwitch

[link:www.bitesize.irish/blog/happy-christmas-in-irish-gaelic|

[jmowreader]

47. This is General Secretary Trump's favorite Christmas song

[Mediumsizedhand]

48. People are dying and his issue and others, is Merry Christmas. People do not care.

Merry Christmas never went away. Talk about a bogus fight. This one gets so much press and is the top of the stupid stupid fake fight.

[blue neen]

49. "Merry Christmas" from the anti-Christ himself, Donald Trump.

Priceless.