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The 22 utterly bizarre lines from Donald Trump's Christmas Eve calls with kids 🎅

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Chris Cillizza
Dec 26, 2025
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(First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve/ Getty Images/ Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

On Christmas Eve, President Donald Trump got on the phone with a bunch of kids calling into NORAD’s Santa tracker.

It was, um, something.

I went through the transcript line by line and pulled out the Trump quotes you really need to see. They’re below.

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To the Lines!

  1. “Let me speak and with the first lady, speak to the children.”

“Me fail English? That’s un-possible.” — Ralph Wiggum

  1. “Well, we track Santa all over the world. We want to make sure that Santa is being good.”

Wait, we have eyes on Santa ALL year? To make sure he is “being good”? Like, are we worried Santa might not be a good person if he didn’t know we were always watching?

  1. “We want to make sure that he's not infiltrating, that we're not infiltrating into our country and ban Santa.”

WTF? “We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrating”???? That is some incredible stuff. Also, Trump is on the phone with a four-year-old and a ten-year-old from Oklahoma. I am not kidding.

  1. “Santa loves Oklahoma, like I do. Oklahoma was very good to me in the election. So, I love Oklahoma.”

In which the president tells two kids that he won Oklahoma in the 2024 election. On a call about tracking Santa. On Christmas Eve.

  1. “Don't ever leave Oklahoma, OK?”

Sort of a weird thing to tell a kid, right? Don’t ever leave your state! Ever. The president is watching —- just like we watch Santa all year round!!! Ha Ha….wait.

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