It’s Christmas At The White House — So, Obviously The Liberal Media Are Mad

WASHINGTON—If you spent any time on social media in November, you may have noticed that many Americans put up their Christmas decorations early this year.

First Lady Melania Trump joined the ranks of those early decorators last week, when she received the White House Christmas Tree in a festive celebration.

.@FLOTUS receives the White House Christmas Tree🎄 pic.twitter.com/MUx0rmySw8

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 24, 2025

Melania walked from the White House to meet the tree delivery. She spoke to the handlers of the fir, which was grown at Korson’s Tree Farms in Michigan, named the National Grand Champion by the National Christmas Tree Association. She then wished the crowd a Merry Christmas before departing. It was a nice moment, and par for the course for our First Lady, who, unlike her Democratic predecessors, doesn’t like to spend a lot of time yapping with the press.

In other words, Melania was polite, inoffensive, and just the right amount of festive — so, naturally, the media were unhappy.

“It seems that Melania Trump has yet to warm up to the holiday spirit,” The Daily Beast reported, joking that this year’s White House Christmas decor “should be more minimal compared to years past, given the destruction of the White House’s East Wing, which typically housed the display.”

“Melania Is Already Suffering Through Christmas,” The Cut proclaimed, while The Daily Beast reported that “Grinch Melania Spends Two Minutes and 50 Seconds at Christmas Event Before Fleeing.”

For context, the official White House video of the Christmas tree installation ceremony ran three minutes and seventeen seconds. Last year’s official video featuring former First Lady Jill Biden was four minutes and fifty-six seconds. The first ladies’ remarks were essentially identical.

Of course, The Daily Beast didn’t slam Jill Biden for the duration of her remarks last year or any other year. In 2022 their headline read simply “Jill Biden Unveils 2022 White House Christmas Decorations.”

Nor did the Beast have anything to say about the White House Christmas display the Bidens forced on the nation their final year in office — a “bizarre,” “freaky,” and “cringey” performance by a New York City-based dance troupe that encourages support of groups like Black Lives Matter.

The publication, like the rest of the mainstream media, was also silent last year when Dr. Jill imposed upon a farm affected by Hurricane Helene for the White House Christmas Tree.

Naturally, though, several publications took this year’s ceremony to recall Melania’s 2018 decorations, which included a number of festive red trees that, for some reason, the entire internet chose to mock. Red trees, it seems, are creepy. But nightmare-inducing circus freaks are the perfect embodiment of, as the Biden White House called it last year, “A Season of Peace and Light.”

Melania wasn’t bothered by the coverage in 2018, and she seems unbothered by this year’s media reaction too. Days after the Christmas tree ceremony, the first lady joined her husband at the annual White House Turkey Pardon. The Daily Wire was on hand for the ceremony, during which President Donald Trump poked fun at his political opponents and praised Gobble, this year’s National Thanksgiving Turkey.

The Trumps never let the haters get them before, and they aren’t going to start now. It looks like it’ll be another festive Christmas season at the White House — no matter what The Daily Beast has to say.