Trump’s NORAD Christmas calls with children take on a partisan tone скачать в хорошем качестве

Trump’s NORAD Christmas calls with children take on a partisan tone

Ah, Christmas: a time of peace, joy, goodwill to all men, and falsely insisting for the umpteenth time that you won the 2020 presidential election. That is according to President Donald Trump, who could not resist peppering his festive presidential phone calls with children and service members on Christmas Eve with his trademark partisan score-settling. "Pennsylvania’s great. We won Pennsylvania, actually, three times," the president wrongly claimed while chatting with a five-year-old boy calling from the Keystone State to check on Santa’s location according to NORAD. (Fact check: Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020.) "Oklahoma was very good to me in the election. So I love Oklahoma," he told a four-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy in Sapulpa. "The country is doing well! We saved our country," he insisted on a call with a family living near Tacoma in Washington state. A separate call with service members was marred by technical difficulties, causing the audio and video to drop out entirely. "I think that's the enemy doing it," Trump joked, before his aides began sharply hustling journalists out of the room. Later, the president issued an even more bracing Christmas message on his social network Truth Social. “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” he raged. “We are respected again, perhaps like never before. God Bless America!!! President DJT.” U.S. presidents traditionally answer calls from various children on Christmas Eve as they telephone in to get an update from NORAD about the current location of Santa. (Fact check: Santa is invisible to radar, and cannot be tracked by any known U.S. government technology.) Full article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo... Watch more on Independent TV: https://tinyurl.com/yc7ukx9n The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking newsbrand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-Independent Find us on social: TikTok /   / independent   Instagram /   / the.independent   X (Twitter) /   / independent   Facebook /   / theindependentonline   Download the iOS & Android app: https://tinyurl.com/2s3ts5dh Sign up to our newsletters: https://tinyurl.com/2bmw565x Help to support truly independent journalism. Every dollar you contribute will directly fund additional special reports and investigations from a free-thinking, award-winning newsroom you can trust: https://www.independent.co.uk/donations