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Trump Admin Stands Firm After Jesus-Centric Christmas Messages Spark Media Freak-Out

Conservative News DailyDecember 29, 2025
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The article describes a dispute after several Trump management agencies and officials posted explicitly Christian Christmas messages celebrating the birth of Jesus. The Washington Post criticized these posts as an exmaple of the administration promoting Christian nationalist rhetoric, prompting pushback from conservatives. Examples cited include Department of Homeland Security videos and X posts from officials such as Harmeet Dhillon, Brooke Rollins, and Linda McMahon. Critics like Rachel Laser of Americans United for Separation of Church and State called the messages divisive and contrary to church-state separation, while White House spokespeople and conservative commentators defended the posts as appropriate expressions of faith and tradition.the piece argues that the First Amendment does not bar government officials from expressing religious sentiments and points to historical presidential references to faith (e.g., George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt) to justify the practice. It concludes by urging the administration to continue posting christian messages despite media criticism.

The Trump administration did not back down when the Washington Post chastised the executive branch for “hailing Christmas in explicitly sectarian terms.”

The outlet went so far as to report it as the latest example of Christian nationalism from the administration.

Several of President Donald Trump’s officials or agency social media accounts posted messages celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.

For example, the Department of Homeland Security d a one-minute video set to the tune “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” with the lyrics “glory to the newborn king… with angelic hosts proclaim, ‘Christ is born in Bethlehem.’” The video ends with the words on the screen, “Chris is born.”

Another DHS post read, “Merry Christmas. We are blessed to a nation and a Savior.”

Harmeet Dhillon, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, who is not a Christian, posted a Christmas message, saying, “As Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, we are reminded that this country was founded on principles of religious liberty …”

“Every day we find opportunities to go to court to protect Christians from discrimination wherever we find it,” she added.

And Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins wrote in an X post, “This season brings out the very best of the American spirit with neighbors helping neighbors, communities lifting one another up, and hearts turning toward gratitude.

“That spirit began on the very first Christmas, when God gave us the greatest gift of all: His Son, our Savior Jesus Christ,” she offered.

All these social media posts were too much for The Washington Post’s Azi Paybarah, who wrote, “The messages sharply diverged from the more secular, Santa Claus-and-reindeer style of Christmas messages that have been the norm for government agencies for years. The posts provided the latest example of the administration’s efforts to promote the cultural views and language of Trump’s evangelical Christian base.”

Paybarah quoted Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, saying, the social media posts are “one more example of the Christian Nationalist rhetoric the Trump administration has disseminated since Day One in office.

“Our Constitution’s promise of church-state separation has allowed religious diversity — including different denominations of Christianity — to flourish in America,” Laser continued. “People of all religions and none should not have to sift through proselytizing messages to access government information.

She concluded, “It’s divisive and un-American.”

Fox News reached out to the Trump White House for a comment, and spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded by standing by the officials’ posts.

“While the Washington Post would prefer we stick to ‘Happy Holidays,’ we’re saying Merry Christmas again. And Christmas is a Christian holiday for millions of Christians celebrating the birth of their Savior, whether the Washington Post likes it or not,” Jackson said in a statement.

The Federalist CEO Sean Davis also made it clear just how silly The Washington Post story is.

“The ‘Christ’ in Christmas is a pretty strong signal that the entire foundation of the holiday is Christian. In fact, it might even be a sign that the whole reason for the season is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the incarnation of God’s Son. You absolute clowns,” he posted on X.

Contrary to what Laser argued, there is nothing in the First Amendment that blocks Trump officials from posting Christian messages in sectarian terms. What it specifically states is, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Posting Christmas messages in no way forces Americans to believe or support what is written; therefore, no religion is being established by the government.

Further, presidents going back to the founding of the republic have freely spoken about faith in their official capacities.

President Franklin Roosevelt argued during World War II that the fight against Nazi Germany was to preserve “Christian civilization,” and put a message in front of all the Bibles distributed to soldiers, encouraging them to read and find strength in its truths.

Trump administration officials are in the right. So they should continue to post Christian messages, regardless of what those in the liberal media say.




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