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Trump’s “Demented” Comments About “Bad Santa” To Kids On Christmas Eve Spark Outrage
President Donald Trump’s “embarrassing” and “demented” comments during North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD’s) annual Santa tracking call quickly sparked outrage online.
The U.S. president, joined by First Lady Melania Trump on Wednesday, December 24, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, spoke with children across the country about their Christmas wishes while warning them about a “bad Santa” infiltrating the nation.
Highlights
- Trump’s Christmas Eve NORAD Santa call sparked backlash after he warned children about a “bad Santa” and used politically charged language like “infiltrate.”
- Netizens slammed the remarks as inappropriate for a festive conversation meant for children.
- The controversy deepened as Trump also discussed elections, coal, and made “high-IQ” comments to young callers.
“Whoever thought that this was a good idea was wrong. He’s not safe around children even if it’s just over the phone,” one social media user reacted.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participated in the 70th annual tradition, fielding phone calls from children on Christmas Eve
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The historic event began on December 24, 1955, by accident, when a misprinted phone number in a Sears department store advertisement in Colorado Springs led callers to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center instead of the intended “Santa hotline.”
The first call that year was answered by Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup, who playfully instructed his staff to check the radar for Santa’s location and provide updates to any subsequent young callers.
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When the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was formed in 1958, it officially took over the Santa-tracking responsibilities from CONAD.
What started as a single accidental call has since grown into a massive volunteer operation, culminating this year with President Donald Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump speaking with children across the United States.
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The couple sat in gold-trimmed armchairs near a beautifully decorated Christmas tree during the nearly 21-minute-long event.
Several youngsters dialed into the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which playfully tracks Santa’s progress around the globe, as the President and First Lady fielded calls about what the children hoped to receive for Christmas.
“We want to make sure that [bad Santa’s]… are not infiltrating into our country,” the 79-year-old politician replied to children aged 4 to 10
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While speaking to two children from Oklahoma, reportedly aged four and ten, the kids asked, “How come Santa has a tracker on him?,” prompting a response from Trump that left many online stunned.
He responded, “We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrated, that we’re not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa.”
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Referencing the children’s home state, he added, “Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election.”
Trump’s use of the word “infiltrating” was widely interpreted as a cryptic nod to his closed border policy implemented in January 2025, which aimed to “seal” the U.S. southern border, suspend asylum, implement mass deportations, and impose new restrictions on legal immigration.
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrated, that we’re not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election pic.twitter.com/9ZrhYBqYa8
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 24, 2025
The internet was not pleased with the exchange, criticizing Donald for using heavy language like “infiltrate” while speaking to young children.
One displeased netizen reacted, “He is not right in the head. I’m so weary of him embarrassing our country.”
Another commented, “Using the word “infiltrate” to a child when talking about Christmas is demented.”
The 47th U.S. president has often marked Christmas with controversy and politically charged remarks aimed at his opponents
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A third critic quipped, “He is definitely the friend you have to tell he’s on speaker when you answer the phone. ‘Hey, Mr. President! Gotcha on speaker, go ahead whatcha got sir?’”
“Pretty good chance this is the first time ‘infiltrate’ was used in a light-hearted Christmas Eve call to a child. So he’s got that going for him.”
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While speaking to another child who said she wanted a Kindle for Christmas, Trump replied, “That’s pretty good. You must be a high-IQ person. We need more high-IQ people in the country.”
When an 8-year-old from Kansas said she did not want coal for Christmas, he playfully responded, “Not coal. No, you don’t want coal. You mean clean, beautiful coal. I had to do that, I’m sorry.”
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight pic.twitter.com/fm3rGty3xl
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 24, 2025
“No, coal is clean and beautiful. Please remember that at all costs,” he added. “But you don’t want clean, beautiful coal, right? What would you like?”
The girl said she would prefer a Barbie doll, clothes, and candy.
Some viewers also critiqued the way Trump took several calls on speakerphone while Melania sat beside him speaking on the phone herself, a detail many found unintentionally amusing.
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“Poor Melania lol he’s on speaker phone… And yet she doesn’t miss a beat,” one user wrote, while another added, “Don’t think they’ll understand Melania!”
Trump also discussed politics and elections with a child in Pennsylvania, telling him, “I’ll bet your mom voted properly”
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In another notable moment, during a phone call with a 5-year-old boy from Pennsylvania, Trump told the child, “Pennsylvania is great. We won Pennsylvania actually, three times, but we won Pennsylvania. We won it in a landslide.”
However, according to official election records, he won Pennsylvania in 2016 and 2024 but lost the state in the 2020 election to former President Joe Biden.
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He later added, “I’ll bet your mom voted properly.”
Just hours after the Christmas calls ended, the president took aim at his “radical left” political opponents in a scathing Truth Social post.
He wrote, “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Sc*m that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly.”
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“We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women’s Sports… Weak Law Enforcement… We are respected again, perhaps like never before.”
“He can’t get anything normal right. Why is it so hard for him to just talk about Santa not elections, not infiltrators, just Christmas,” wrote one user
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Laugh or not 2 weeks ago
The comment about Morticia and Gomez Adams is wrong, so, so, so wrong. The Adams were weird good people. That’s the entire point of the show. The orange t**d is demented and bad to his core.
Norfolk and good 2 weeks ago
💯 The Addams family were weird, but they were a close-knit family who loved and supported each other.
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Λjvo 2 weeks ago
“If Gomez and Morticia Addams were actual people.” - nonsense, Addams family have CLASS.
James Twong 2 weeks ago
Your president is a f*cking nutter who is not safe to be around kids. Zero empathy, there's just nothing there at all.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago (edited)
It's not just empathy he lacks. He also lacks decency, sympathy, honor, restraint, common sense... he lacks pretty much everything positive. He has nothing inside of him except for a desire for power, attention, and money. Oh, and all the negative emotions, motivations, and characteristics. He DOES have all of those. There's plenty inside of him... it's just ALL narcissistic, self-serving, and, frankly, evil.
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TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
He lives in a different, fantasy world. He truly believes that he has a 90% approval and that his policies are big successes despite all the proof otherwise
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
I think there should be a rule that excludes clearly mental ill people from running for the office in the US
Merry Grinchmas from Grumpy 2 weeks ago
This is why the Founding Fathers didnt want actual Mob Rule Demcracy. The Greeks didnt either. A Republic, if you can keep it. Franklin
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Virgil Blue 2 weeks ago (edited)
No, they are not Adameses, they are at best their deeply bigoted neighbours that are supposed to be "normal" but are actually the evil ones.
persephone134 2 weeks ago (edited)
Isn't Santa an illegal immigrant? Surely ICE should see to him?
LizzieBoredom 2 weeks ago
Plus he breaks into your house just to give presents to your children. Pervy.
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TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
And pedophile, racist, ràpist, and so many more things
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R Dennis 2 weeks ago
This is what you get when you hand the seat of power to an egotistical i******e.
Binky Melnik 2 weeks ago
I’m scared to upvote this because I can’t for the life of my figure out that last word. (Speaking of which when we talk about him, it takes everything in me not to use the R-word. 😰)
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Nils Skirnir 2 weeks ago
Trump is a demented, mentally defective, N**i with control over 75% of the world’s destructive weaponry.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Technically like 40%, the Ruskies have more throw weight than we do, especially regarding nukes
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Beak Hookage 2 weeks ago
People who criticise this scum are called "obsessed" and "unhinged", but he's the one who's so insanely hung up on his numbers and "illegals" he can't even drop it when it's f*****g CHRISTMAS and he's talking to children who probably don't know the first thing about what the hell "winning Pennsylvania" even means.
Phedre Parks 2 weeks ago
Dear World, This American citizen needs a good laugh. Please, for the remaining years of this man's presidency, I beg you, please when you come to visit our beautiful country, come dressed as a Bad Santa.
Liz Rutherford 2 weeks ago
Dude's got dementia. And talking to a kid when we all know what he is? I don't think I have the words to describe how disgusting that is.
Jess Barbosa 2 weeks ago
Gomez and mortitia had hearts of gold. HOW DARE someone even try to make the comparison.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Weird but in a loving marriage and utterly devoted to their family. The only things the felon loves are himself and 13 year old girls
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Ann Kapoxeet 2 weeks ago
Any parent that put their kid on a call with the pumpkin man has probably heard a lot worse from family members.
PenguinEmp 2 weeks ago
S**t even bad Santa thinks it's too much. Seriously I'm waiting for him to have a complete mental episode on camera. It will be hilarious.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Dude that f*****g speech he gave a week or 2 ago was literally a mental breakdown. That s**t was BONKERS
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Binky Melnik 2 weeks ago
Who the hell is the “bill in bed dude”? Is this a comment about Melania being trans? (In which case I *still* don’t get it.)
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TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago (edited)
Mexico build that wall yet cultist? D**g prices down 1300% yet cultist? Thank you for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt why not a single person on this Earth has ever or will ever say any single one of you felon worshippers are anything even appearing to be intelligent. What a f*****g moron
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Tamra 2 weeks ago
"Wise, kind man"....ahahahahahaha...*takes breath*.... hahahahahahahaha!! Thanks for the Christmas laugh! 🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies... Laugh or not 2 weeks ago
The comment about Morticia and Gomez Adams is wrong, so, so, so wrong. The Adams were weird good people. That’s the entire point of the show. The orange t**d is demented and bad to his core.
Norfolk and good 2 weeks ago
💯 The Addams family were weird, but they were a close-knit family who loved and supported each other.
Load More Replies... Λjvo 2 weeks ago
“If Gomez and Morticia Addams were actual people.” - nonsense, Addams family have CLASS.
James Twong 2 weeks ago
Your president is a f*cking nutter who is not safe to be around kids. Zero empathy, there's just nothing there at all.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago (edited)
It's not just empathy he lacks. He also lacks decency, sympathy, honor, restraint, common sense... he lacks pretty much everything positive. He has nothing inside of him except for a desire for power, attention, and money. Oh, and all the negative emotions, motivations, and characteristics. He DOES have all of those. There's plenty inside of him... it's just ALL narcissistic, self-serving, and, frankly, evil.
Load More Replies... TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
He lives in a different, fantasy world. He truly believes that he has a 90% approval and that his policies are big successes despite all the proof otherwise
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 2 weeks ago
I think there should be a rule that excludes clearly mental ill people from running for the office in the US
Merry Grinchmas from Grumpy 2 weeks ago
This is why the Founding Fathers didnt want actual Mob Rule Demcracy. The Greeks didnt either. A Republic, if you can keep it. Franklin
Load More Replies... Virgil Blue 2 weeks ago (edited)
No, they are not Adameses, they are at best their deeply bigoted neighbours that are supposed to be "normal" but are actually the evil ones.
persephone134 2 weeks ago (edited)
Isn't Santa an illegal immigrant? Surely ICE should see to him?
LizzieBoredom 2 weeks ago
Plus he breaks into your house just to give presents to your children. Pervy.
Load More Replies... TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
And pedophile, racist, ràpist, and so many more things
Load More Replies... R Dennis 2 weeks ago
This is what you get when you hand the seat of power to an egotistical i******e.
Binky Melnik 2 weeks ago
I’m scared to upvote this because I can’t for the life of my figure out that last word. (Speaking of which when we talk about him, it takes everything in me not to use the R-word. 😰)
Load More Replies... Nils Skirnir 2 weeks ago
Trump is a demented, mentally defective, N**i with control over 75% of the world’s destructive weaponry.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Technically like 40%, the Ruskies have more throw weight than we do, especially regarding nukes
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 2 weeks ago
People who criticise this scum are called "obsessed" and "unhinged", but he's the one who's so insanely hung up on his numbers and "illegals" he can't even drop it when it's f*****g CHRISTMAS and he's talking to children who probably don't know the first thing about what the hell "winning Pennsylvania" even means.
Phedre Parks 2 weeks ago
Dear World, This American citizen needs a good laugh. Please, for the remaining years of this man's presidency, I beg you, please when you come to visit our beautiful country, come dressed as a Bad Santa.
Liz Rutherford 2 weeks ago
Dude's got dementia. And talking to a kid when we all know what he is? I don't think I have the words to describe how disgusting that is.
Jess Barbosa 2 weeks ago
Gomez and mortitia had hearts of gold. HOW DARE someone even try to make the comparison.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Weird but in a loving marriage and utterly devoted to their family. The only things the felon loves are himself and 13 year old girls
Load More Replies... Ann Kapoxeet 2 weeks ago
Any parent that put their kid on a call with the pumpkin man has probably heard a lot worse from family members.
PenguinEmp 2 weeks ago
S**t even bad Santa thinks it's too much. Seriously I'm waiting for him to have a complete mental episode on camera. It will be hilarious.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Dude that f*****g speech he gave a week or 2 ago was literally a mental breakdown. That s**t was BONKERS
Load More Replies... Binky Melnik 2 weeks ago
Who the hell is the “bill in bed dude”? Is this a comment about Melania being trans? (In which case I *still* don’t get it.)
Load More Replies... TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago (edited)
Mexico build that wall yet cultist? D**g prices down 1300% yet cultist? Thank you for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt why not a single person on this Earth has ever or will ever say any single one of you felon worshippers are anything even appearing to be intelligent. What a f*****g moron
Load More Replies... Tamra 2 weeks ago
"Wise, kind man"....ahahahahahaha...*takes breath*.... hahahahahahahaha!! Thanks for the Christmas laugh! 🤣🤣🤣
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