At this year’s national Christmas tree lighting ceremony, President Donald Trump wished the nation and the world a Merry Christmas, noting that the birth of Jesus Christ “forever changed the course of human history.”
“Today is a day that I’ve been looking very much forward to all year long. It’s one that we have heard and we speak about and we dream about. And now, as the President of the United States, it’s my tremendous honor to finally wish America and the world, a very merry Christmas,” he said.
The President recalled 1870 legislation signed by President Ulysses S. Grant making Christmas a federal holiday. “And I sort of feel we’re doing that again. That’s what’s happening,” he said.
Since the birth of the nation, he said, “Americans have known Christmas as a time for prayer and worship, for gratitude and goodwill, for peace and renewal.”
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