Donald Trump’s War on Christmas

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Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. In 2015, Donald Trump, then a longshot presidential candidate, launched a campaign to reclaim Christmas from what he described as a creeping wave of political correctness. "If I become president, we're going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' at every store," he said on the trail that fall. Trump was casting the secular shift toward inclusive greetings like "Happy Holidays" as a cultural threat. A year after his surprise...