I want I may write one thing optimistic given the time of yr. I actually do. Usually I’m downright cheerful across the vacation season. That is usually obvious in my writing; I can show it.
Sorry, although. For 2025, I simply can’t. We now have a president who’s a worse Christmas villain than Ebenezer Scrooge, the Grinch, and people thieving German terrorists from the unique “Die Onerous” all rolled into one. So I suppose I’m going to should level out precisely how un-Christmassy Donald Trump actually is.
Effectively, we’ve got to begin someplace, so for those who’re the kind who thinks we have to preserve the “Christ” in “Christmas,” first, reevaluate your whole existence. Second, take a look at actually something Jesus Christ mentioned within the Bible and tie your self into knots making an attempt to align that with something in anyway that Trump has mentioned or performed as president. Or, ya know, learn the nativity story about how Jesus was a migrant himself. He didn’t wind up spending his first night time in that manger for funsies.
You don’t even have to enter the New Testomony although to search out out that God isn’t down with being dicks to folks from different locations. One in every of many examples, from Leviticus 19:34: “You shall deal with the stranger who sojourns with you because the native amongst you, and also you shall love him as your self.” Boy, that’s very unambiguous!
It’s official: Trump’s horrible, dehumanizing, untargeted immigration crackdown isn’t very Christmassy.
Effectively, everyone knows that generosity is a giant a part of the Christmas spirit. In any case, that’s how Scrooge lastly turned it round after a lifetime of being an affordable, miserly bastard.
Oh, shit, the DOGE cuts to USAID have already killed 600,000 folks because of preventable infectious ailments and malnutrition, two-thirds of them kids, with hundreds of thousands extra deaths on the horizon until funding is restored.
Trumpers may say (though it’s not very Christmassy) there was no alternative however to chop USAID. But this funding was solely costing a median U.S. taxpayer round 17 cents per day. And slicing it has performed completely nothing to reign in authorities spending. Truly, the nationwide debt continues to hit file highs and has elevated quicker below Trump than at nearly another time in American historical past.
OK, gilding his personal environment at taxpayer expense, taking bribes from overseas Islamic fundamentalist regimes, overseeing the investiture of Elon Musk because the richest particular person ever, shamelessly hawking Bibles together with his signature in them as if he was the creator, promoting pardons, his stupid-looking hats, and worst of all affect via cryptocurrency for private acquire … is it Reverse Christmas this yr or what?
Symbolism is the least vital factor about Trump’s method to Christmas when persons are dying and struggling and the integrity of america is being auctioned off to the best bidder. Nonetheless, symbolism issues. His supporters applaud as a result of he generally says he helps Christians and throws a couple of Christmas bushes up on the White Home after illegally demolishing your complete wing the place many of the Christmas decorations used to go.
However Trump’s response to the murders of beloved filmmaker Rob Reiner (who directed “The Princess Bride”) and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, the week earlier than Christmas just about says all of it. Trump blasted the departed Rob Reiner, and blamed him for inflicting his personal brutal homicide, which Trump principally mentioned he introduced on himself via his criticism of this administration.
In comparison with this, an Ebenezer Scrooge administration could be a Christmas miracle. With Trump, we’re up to now previous the Scrooge stage of humbug, I don’t suppose the ghost of Herman Cain dragging the chain of Godfather’s Pizza containers that he solid in life may flip this round with the assistance of three time-traveling Christmas spirits.
I assume attempt to discover some Christmas cheer the place you’ll be able to. Have a sweet cane. Drink a sizzling toddy. Discover some consolation within the ones you like, in the event that they haven’t been unjustly deported but.
Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator and creator of Your Debt-Free JD (affiliate hyperlink). He has taught authorized writing, written for all kinds of publications, and made it each his enterprise and his pleasure to be financially and scientifically literate. Any views he expresses are most likely pure gold, however are nonetheless solely his personal and shouldn’t be attributed to any group with which he’s affiliated. He wouldn’t wish to share the credit score anyway. He could be reached at [email protected].
