Trump shares a social media post attacking 'radical left lunatics' and saying Canada could become the 51st US state.
The outgoing and incoming presidents of the United States had different messages for the Christmas holidayswith Democrat Joe Biden urging Americans to reflect and unite, while Republican Donald Trump offered a holiday greeting and then took aim at his political opponents.
Biden he referred to a video tour of the White House Christmas decorations released on YouTube late on Christmas Eve Tuesday, in which he urged Americans to put “all the noise and everything that divides us” the second side.
“We're here on this Earth to care for each other, to love each other,” Biden said in a voiceover as a camera panned past decorated evergreens and couch fireplaces. inside the White House. “Too often we see each other as enemies, not as neighbors, not as fellow Americans,” he said.
Biden urged Americans to find a moment of “quiet reflection” to remind themselves to treat each other with dignity and respect, to “live in the light” and remember that there was more to unite than to be dividing Americans. “We are truly blessed to live in this country,” he said.
Trump posted a mid-morning “Merry Christmas” message on Truth Social on Christmas Day Wednesday with a photo of himself and his wife Melania, followed by more than two dozen reposts of articles or other social media posts that supported him his political positions on topics including defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and the pursuit of Greenland and the The Panama Canal.
Trump later posted a longer “Merry Christmas” message that claimed Chinese troops were working on the Panama Canal, and criticized Canada's Prime Minister Justin TrudeauBiden and the Democrats.
“Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are always trying to disrupt our court system and elections,” Trump wrote. “They know their only chance is to to live to be forgiven by a man who knows not what he does.”
“Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizen Taxes are way too high, but if Canada were to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60 percent,” Trump wrote.
Mr Biden took office in 2021 promising to “end this unfriendly war of red against blue, rural against urban, conservative against liberal,” and said he bowed to out of the 2024 presidential race in July to unite the country.
Biden's Democrats lost every battleground state and both houses of Congress in the November election.
By some measures, polarization in the country has increased, including during the 2024 campaign that saw Biden against Trump, again, before Kamala Harris took over the Democratic nomination before losing the election last president.
Trump has called for the prosecution of perceived political enemies, the US takeover of the Panama Canal and has promised to restructure the federal government.
