We Could Not Have A Less Christmassy President If Ebenezer Scrooge Sat In The Oval Office - Above the Law

"I wish I could write something positive given the time of year. I really do. Normally I'm downright cheerful around the holiday season. This is often apparent in my writing; I can prove it. Sorry, though. For 2025, I just can't. We have a president who is a worse Christmas villain than Ebenezer Scrooge, the Grinch, and those thieving German terrorists from the original "Die Hard" all rolled into one."

"Well, we have to start somewhere, so if you're the type who thinks we need to keep the "Christ" in "Christmas," first, reevaluate your entire existence. Second, look at literally anything Jesus Christ said in the Bible and tie yourself into knots trying to align that with anything whatsoever that Trump has said or done as president. Or, ya know, read the nativity story about how Jesus was a migrant himself. He didn't wind up spending his first night in that manger for funsies."

"Well, we all know that generosity is a big part of the Christmas spirit. After all, that's how Scrooge finally turned it around after a lifetime of being a cheap, miserly bastard. Oh, shit, the DOGE cuts to USAID have already killed 600,000 people as a result of preventable infectious diseases and malnutrition, two-thirds of them children, with millions more deaths on the horizon unless funding is restored."

Donald Trump's policies and rhetoric contradict core Christian teachings about treating strangers with love and dignity. The nativity narrative portrays Jesus as a migrant who first slept in a manger, illustrating compassion toward migrants. Leviticus 19:34 commands treating strangers as natives and loving them as oneself, which clashes with dehumanizing immigration measures. Generosity is central to the Christmas spirit, yet cuts to USAID have already caused massive preventable deaths, including hundreds of thousands of children. Deep reductions in humanitarian funding threaten millions more lives and reflect priorities at odds with compassion and charitable obligation.

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