{"id":2383526,"date":"2024-12-25T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T16:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-trump-told-the-armed-forces-we-say-christmas-again-very-proudly\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T16:36:46","slug":"flashback-trump-told-the-armed-forces-we-say-christmas-again-very-proudly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-trump-told-the-armed-forces-we-say-christmas-again-very-proudly\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Trump Told the Armed Forces &#8216;We Say Christmas Again Very Proudly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-trump-told-the-armed-forces-we-say-christmas-again-very-proudly%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2383526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reflects on the\u200b cultural meaning of Christmas \u200din the\u200b context of American politics, particularly focusing on \u200cthe contrasting attitudes\u200c of \u2062president Joe Biden and former President Donald\u200d Trump towards the holiday. It\u2062 emphasizes that under Trump, there was a strong assertion of the phrase &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8221; especially during his first Christmas in office, where\u2062 he proclaimed \u2064his pride in wishing\u2063 Americans a Merry Christmas. The narrative critiques the reactions from liberals at the time, who felt\u200b Trump was\u200d taking undue credit for the freedom to express such sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>The piece contrasts this approach with Biden&#8217;s\u2064 more politically correct stance and hints at a sense of nostalgia \u200dfor the Trump era in which Christmas greetings were celebrated\u2062 more \u200bopenly. It \u2062further argues\u200d that the political \u2062habitat surrounding Christmas \u200chas been heavily influenced \u200bby\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-top-immigration-adviser-biden-agenda-would-fundamentally-erase-very-essence-of-americas-nationhood\/\" title=\"Ex-Top Immigration Adviser: Biden Agenda \u2018Would Fundamentally Erase Very Essence Of America\u2019s Nationhood\u2019\">immigration issues<\/a> and the Deferred Action\u2063 for\u200c Childhood\u200b Arrivals (DACA) program,citing comments made by then-Senator \u2062Kamala Harris about the potential impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/acting-deputy-secy-comments-on-response-to-breach-on-capitol-building\/\" title=\"Acting deputy secy. comments on response to breach on Capitol building\">immigration policy<\/a> \u2063on\u2062 the ability to say &#8220;Merry\u2062 Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the summary underscores\u2062 a broader\u2062 cultural and political divide in\u2063 America concerning the party of Christmas,with references to\u200d past controversies and\u2064 electoral outcomes that reflect these sentiments. The concluding note\u2062 is a festive wish to America, invoking the spirit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">holiday amidst political discourse<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, it&rsquo;s important to remember that America didn&rsquo;t elect a &ldquo;Happy Holidays&rdquo; kind of guy.<\/p>\n<p>The president this Dec. 25 will still be Joe Biden, who&rsquo;ll doubtlessly wish us all a Feliz Hanukkah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rand-paul-releases-annual-festivus-report-airing-grievances-excess-government-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Festivus<\/a> on that day and sit us all around the hearth, one last time, to remind America how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/always-remember-joe-biden-misled-everyone-wifes-death-blamed-innocent-man-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corn Pop was a bad dude<\/a> and, by the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-5-biden-gaffes-2022-show-mental-decline-getting-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where&rsquo;s Jackie?<\/a> Not a joke, folks. No lie.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, we&rsquo;ll have President Donald J. Trump again &mdash; and he&rsquo;ll remind us all of the reason for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Flash back to Christmas Eve nearly seven years ago, Trump&rsquo;s first Christmas as president. &lsquo;Twas the night before Christmas, and Trump was speaking to members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-officials-sound-alarm-armed-forces-must-deploy-haiti-next-step-becomes-biblical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed Forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9h74kzvhYCI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he began<\/a> with an underlined message about what Americans should be focused on: &ldquo;I just wanted to wish everybody a very, very Merry Christmas. We say Christmas again very proudly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to tell the troops &ldquo;how well we&rsquo;re doing&rdquo; in the fight on terror and that &ldquo;we&rsquo;re winning.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He added that America&rsquo;s Armed Forces are &ldquo;under-appreciated&rdquo; and that military families are &ldquo;the greatest people on earth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to have a great year, an incredible year. I&rsquo;m thrilled to bring seasons greetings on behalf of the first lady and our entire family and most importantly, on behalf of the American people,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>When NBC News posted this clip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2239674282719256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> seven years ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/canadian-imam-merry-christmas-worse-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reactions they got from liberals<\/a> &mdash; unsurprisingly &mdash; ranged from rage to derisiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When the hell did people stop saying Merry Christmas? Why is Trump taking credit for Christmas anyway? No one ever stopped saying MERRY CHRISTMAS! Sick of this crap!&rdquo; said one commenter, who got over 2,700 likes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The past 8 years were hard, having to whisper &lsquo;Merry Christmas&rsquo; furtively, terrified the the Obama Christmas Police would show up to drag you off to a concentration camp if anyone reported you for saying those words,&rdquo; said another commenter, who got 2,800 likes for her sarcastic remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you, Dear Leader the great and glorious POTUS, for allowing us the freedom to tell total strangers to have a Merry Christmas even if they don&rsquo;t celebrate Christian holidays.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And, a little under seven years later, Trump found himself running against a woman who literally spent the 2017 holidays telling Americans they daren&rsquo;t say &ldquo;Merry Christmas&rdquo; unless they gave permanent status to certain illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, that aged well:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6359761487112&amp;w=466&amp;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And when we all sing happy tunes, and sing Merry Christmas, and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas,&rdquo; then-Sen. Kamala Harris said during a 2017 news conference in which she urged the Trump administration to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/flashback-harris-fumed-americans-saying-merry-christmas-before-illegal-migrants-protections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> &mdash; apparently our ability to say &ldquo;Merry Christmas&rdquo; was entirely dependent on that political fact.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;How dare we speak Merry Christmas?&rdquo; she asked, rhetorically &ldquo;How dare we? They will not have a Merry Christmas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Christmas, by the way, celebrates the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, in the city of Bethlehem, and has nothing to do with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/79000-daca-recipients-approved-despite-arrest-records-arrested-10x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failures of DACA<\/a> or of Obama-era immigration policy. I would think these quite pertinent facts would have been addressed in Humanity 101, but apparently not for the Democratic standard-bearer in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>So, this was the choice America had &mdash; not the only difference, mind you, but certainly one of them. The result: 312 electoral votes for &ldquo;We say Christmas again very proudly,&rdquo; 226 for &ldquo;How dare we speak Merry Christmas?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/comedian-says-got-trouble-saying-merry-christmas-tv-show-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merry Christmas<\/a>, America!<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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