{"id":44497,"date":"2016-12-18T06:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T06:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=44497"},"modified":"2016-12-18T06:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T06:04:51","slug":"merry-christmas-again-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/merry-christmas-again-says-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas again says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The thanks giving and Christimas rallies are going hand in hand for Trump.If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump were to be believed, his election last month has changed the way Americans celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe\u2019re gonna start saying \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 again,\u201d he told a rally in Michigan last week. By this week, Mr. Trump\u2019s \u2018thank you\u2019 rallies have added an explicit Christmas fervour to it. Standing against the backdrop of Christmas trees and lights, Mr. Trump told supporters in Wisconsin on Tuesday: \u201cSo when I started 18 months ago, I told my first crowd in Wisconsin that we are going to come back here someday and we are going to say \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 again&#8230; Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-44499\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-santa-sell-out-donald-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas\" width=\"651\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-santa-sell-out-donald-trump.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-santa-sell-out-donald-trump-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, Merry Christmas everyone. Happy New Year, but Merry Christmas.\u201dSome have linked the decline of Christmas greetings to President Barack Obama\u2019s rise. The Obamas wished \u2018happy holidays\u2019 on greeting cards always, though the President has wished Americans a \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d every year, in his weekly address ahead of December 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThank you, everybody. Mele Kalikimaka,\u201d Mr. Obama said on Friday, concluding what could be his final presser in office, with the Hawaiian greeting for \u2018Merry Christmas.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-44500\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Professional-investors-on-the-ASX-are-lining-up-for-Christmas-presents-from-the-annual-Santa-rally-in-share-prices-at-the-expense-of-retail-investors.-900x506.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas\" width=\"674\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Professional-investors-on-the-ASX-are-lining-up-for-Christmas-presents-from-the-annual-Santa-rally-in-share-prices-at-the-expense-of-retail-investors.-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Professional-investors-on-the-ASX-are-lining-up-for-Christmas-presents-from-the-annual-Santa-rally-in-share-prices-at-the-expense-of-retail-investors.-900x506-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Professional-investors-on-the-ASX-are-lining-up-for-Christmas-presents-from-the-annual-Santa-rally-in-share-prices-at-the-expense-of-retail-investors.-900x506-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presidents before him too have used \u2018happy holidays\u2019 or \u2018season\u2019s greetings\u2019 and avoided mentioning \u2018Christmas\u2019 on cards \u2014 John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover, for instance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Trump had kept the issue at the centre of his campaign since the Christmas of 2015, when a controversy erupted over Starbucks avoiding Christmas symbols on its cups as it used do to earlier. Joshua Feuerstein, an evangelical social-media personality, launched a YouTube campaign against Starbucks, which has been viewed 17 million times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thanks giving and Christimas rallies are going hand in hand for Trump.If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump were to be believed, his election last month has changed the way Americans celebrate Christmas. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna start saying \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 again,\u201d he told a rally in Michigan last week. By this week, Mr. Trump\u2019s \u2018thank you\u2019 rallies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[21270,21272,21273,21268,21271,21267,21269],"class_list":["post-44497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-americans-celebrate-christmas","tag-christmas-greetings-to-president-barack-obama","tag-december-25","tag-donald-trump-says-merry-christmas","tag-happy-new-year","tag-merry-christmas","tag-u-s-president-elect-donald-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Untitled-1-copy-49.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}