The 2018 National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse outside the White House. “You know, you go from one thing to the next to the point where it’s not politically correct to say ‘Merry Christmas’ to anybody, or you go to stores and you don’t ever see the word ‘Christmas’ anymore,” said the candidate. “We are going to start saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again." As Fox News media correspondent Howard Kurtz reports, the Trump White House is bagging the annual media Christmas bash, a staple of elite Washington. The brilliance of this White House Christmas party lay in its extreme awkwardness.

Source: Washington Post December 13, 2018 17:36 UTC