An interview with former President Donald Trump continued what has become something of a holiday tradition: some people griping that political grinches have taken the Christmas out of Christmastime.
The Newsmax network promoted its interview with a clip in which Trump accepts credit for restoring use of the greeting, "Merry Christmas."
"Mr. President, when you came into office, America had gone through a long period where people quit saying, ‘Merry Christmas.’ It was all, ‘Happy holidays,’" said the interviewer, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. "You deliberately changed that and openly said, ‘Merry Christmas, we’re going to say it again.’"
Trump replied that it was part of his 2016 presidential campaign. "The country had started with this ‘woke,’ I guess, a little bit before that and it was embarrassing for stores to say, ‘Merry Christmas,’" Trump said on the program, which aired Dec. 20. "You’d see these big chains, they want your money but they don’t want to say, ‘Merry Christmas.’"
In remarks a day earlier, Trump complained that while he was president, the media criticized each color of the first lady Melania Trump’s Christmas trees, which he said were red one year, then white, then green.
We’ve rated as Promise Kept Trump’s campaign pledge that he wouldn’t say, "Happy holidays."
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