drumpf / trump-vance administration with their families, gop scotus justices, gop / greed over people-republican party leadership and heritage foundation officials around their "christian" nationalist "nativity" based on the birthing scene from 'Rosemary's Baby'.
First Amendment advocates and constitutional scholars may find the "religious" Christmas messaging put out by the fascist authoritarian drumpf / trump-vance administration objectionable and disturbing and it is, but because it is only right wing propaganda. This government and the gop / greed over people republican party has no intention of imposing Christianity as our nation's official religion. If they intend to impose Christianity on America they would never have declared and imposed the anti-Christian policies of every government department and agency that they have. Consider Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, His Beatitudes, His life example and it is obvious this is not a Christian government leading us to be a Christian nation. This shows just how evil and twisted Not My pres drumpf / trump is, just the kind of person "christian" nationalist can worship and adore and drumpf's / trump's Christmas Eve and Christmas Day post and videos and the neo-nazi actions of the drumpf / trump-vance administration reinforce this. They are committing blatant apostasy. These from the New York Times, Mother Jones and MassLive.....
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
The Trump administration celebrated Christmas on Thursday by posting a series of religious messages from official government accounts, using language that drew criticism from those who pointed to the country’s separation of church and state.
While many lawmakers in both parties posted universal messages of love, joy and peace on the holiday, a number of cabinet members and agencies made references to Jesus and the religious meaning of Christmas.
“Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote. “May His light bring peace, hope, and joy to you and your families.”
Posts by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Homeland Security Department and the Labor Department followed in a similar vein.
“The joyous message of Christmas is the hope of Eternal Life through Christ,” Mr. Rubio said.
“Let Earth Receive Her King,” the Labor Department said.
Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution bans an official state religion. The First Amendment’s establishment clause prohibits the government from establishing a religion or favoring one religion over another, while the free exercise clause protects the religious expression of all faiths.
In response to a request for comment, a White House spokeswoman, Anna Kelly, issued a short statement, saying: “Who are the critics? You? And Merry Christmas!”
One of the most extensive Christmas messages was posted by the Homeland Security Department on Christmas Eve. It read, “We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior,” and included a video that featured images including the American flag, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, President Trump and a Nativity scene, along with the words “Remember the miracle of Christ’s birth.”
Rachel Laser, the president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, condemned the message as “divisive and un-American” in a statement to The New York Times on Thursday.
“Our Constitution’s promise of church-state separation has allowed religious diversity — including different denominations of Christianity — to flourish in America,” she said, adding that Americans “should not have to sift through proselytizing messages to access government information.”
The Homeland Security post also drew strong responses online. Alex Nowrasteh, senior vice president for policy at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said: “Americans don’t share a religion. Our state is secular.”
Timothy Sandefur, the vice president for legal affairs at the conservative Goldwater Institute, said, “Whatever this department of the federal government may say, I appreciate and respect my Jewish fellow Americans.”
Laura Kennedy, a former ambassador who worked in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, said: “I am a Christian. I am also a proud American because our laws were designed to prohibit a national religion.”
Some conservative Christians and far-right activists celebrated the video. David Millard Haskell, a religion and culture professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, said, “The more Americans embrace this sentiment, the better they will be able to face any threat that comes against them.” Jack Posobiec, a Trump loyalist and friend of the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, responded to the video: “Yes.”
About 62 percent of Americans identify as Christians, a decline of nine percentage points since 2014, according to the Pew Research Center.
In the last year, Mr. Trump has expanded the power and influence of conservative Christians across the government, advancing their political and ideological priorities with a promise to “bring back Christianity.”
In February, Mr. Trump created a task force at the Justice Department to “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society” and “move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.” The executive order cited the convictions of anti-abortion demonstrators for blocking access to abortion clinics. In May, he established the Religious Liberty Commission in the Justice Department.
Mr. Trump also created a White House Faith Office led by his longtime personal pastor, Paula White-Cain, and Jennifer Korn, who worked in the first Trump administration. Evangelical leaders say the office, where Ms. White-Cain takes communion every day and displays Bibles, has given them closer access to the president.
On Thursday, the official social media accounts for the Republican Party also leaned into the religious aspects of Christmas, posting Bible verses and a painting of baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary with a caption that said, “Today, we remember that Jesus Christ is the reason for the Christmas season.”
Ashley Ahn covers breaking news for The Times from New York.
The Latest on the Trump Administration
Kennedy Center: The institution’s president sent a letter threatening litigation against a musician who canceled an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert in protest of the site’s new name, the Trump-Kennedy Center. And in attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.
Lead Pollution: Under Biden-era policies, an Arizona copper smelter faced tighter rules to reduce its toxic emissions. But in October, Trump exempted it from complying for the next two years.
Strikes in Nigeria: The United States launched a number of strikes against the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria. In November, President Trump threatened to take military action if Nigeria’s government did not stop the killing of Christians, a framing that experts have challenged.
‘Housing First’ for the Homeless: The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive.
Gender-Related Care for Minors: A coalition of 19 states sued to block the Trump administration’s plan to strip federal funding from hospitals providing gender-related care for minors, a policy that would effectively shut down any health care providers that failed to comply.
A.I. Risks: The administration has downplayed concerns over artificial intelligence — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.
Kennedy Center: The institution’s president sent a letter threatening litigation against a musician who canceled an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert in protest of the site’s new name, the Trump-Kennedy Center. And in attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.
Lead Pollution: Under Biden-era policies, an Arizona copper smelter faced tighter rules to reduce its toxic emissions. But in October, Trump exempted it from complying for the next two years.
Strikes in Nigeria: The United States launched a number of strikes against the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria. In November, President Trump threatened to take military action if Nigeria’s government did not stop the killing of Christians, a framing that experts have challenged.
‘Housing First’ for the Homeless: The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive.
Gender-Related Care for Minors: A coalition of 19 states sued to block the Trump administration’s plan to strip federal funding from hospitals providing gender-related care for minors, a policy that would effectively shut down any health care providers that failed to comply.
A.I. Risks: The administration has downplayed concerns over artificial intelligence — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.
Trump Spent Christmas Posting Over 100 Times on Truth Social
As the clock struck midnight on Christmas morning at one Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, at least one someone was stirring.
Starting in the early hours of December 25 and ending in the evening, President Donald Trump posted over 100 times on Truth Social.
Hours before Trump sat alongside first lady Melania Trump to answer the calls of children dialing into the North American Aerospace Defense Command, during which he told kids from Oklahoma that “we’re not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa,” the president shared posts attacking Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and former President Joe Biden, amongst several others.
At 12:01, Trump began the spree by sharing an over-eight-minute video by someone explaining “The DEMOCRAT FRAUD PYRAMID.”
Throughout the day, concluding around 7 o’clock, the president repeated many times that the 2020 election was stolen. He also shared a post that praised White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s handling of the “fake news,” another of someone who called Democrats a “criminal organization,” and one where Trump said, of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), “Throw her out of the U.S., Now!”
Many times, Trump would post a photo or video to his platform and then immediately after post a screenshot of how a supporter responded to his post. For example, around 1 in the morning, Trump shared a video of White House border czar Tom Homan at a press conference, discussing the administration’s mass deportation campaign. Less than one minute later, there’s another Trump post of a user called “RWB_American” on X quoting the video and writing about “the success ICE is having at nabbing illegals that need to be departed.”
The official Christmas presidential message from the White House, though, had a different tone.
“The First Lady and I send our warmest wishes to all Americans as we share in the joy of Christmas Day and celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” it began. The message contained religious messages about “the gift of God’s only begotten Son” and Trump’s vow to always remain one Nation under God. (There was a lot of religious messaging across the administration on the 25th, spurring critiques from those saying the various posts skirted the US’s separation of church and state.)
President Trump ended his posting spree with a Merry Christmas message to constituents. It read, in part, “Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to “drop him like a dog” when things got too HOT.”
Then, as a somewhat ominous sign off, Trump wrote: “Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”
Trump gives ominous warning in Christmas message to ‘sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein’
President Donald Trump has extended an ominous Christmas greeting to “sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein,” making bold claims about the release of the Epstein files in a post on Truth Social.
“Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, didn’t know him, said he was a disgusting person, and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so,” the president wrote.
Trump claimed that the release of the Epstein files is a “Radical Left Witch Hunt” started by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., that will reveal the people behind it “are Democrats all.”
“... There will be a lot of explaining to do, much like there was when it was made public that the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax was a fictitious story — a total Scam — and had nothing to do with ‘TRUMP,’” Trump wrote.
The president also went after the New York Times, who he claimed led inaccurate election coverage and are doing the same with the Epstein files.
“The Failing New York Times, among many others, was forced to apologize for their bad and faulty Election ‘Reporting,’ even to the point of losing many subscribers due to their highly inaccurate (FAKE!) coverage,” he said. “Now the same losers are at it again, only this time so many of their friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationally tarnished.”
Trump ended the message with an ominous warning for Democrats.
“But sadly, that’s the way it is in the World of Corrupt Democrat Politics!!! Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas! President Donald J. Trump.”
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