--- title: Donald Trump Wished Many Enemies a Happy New Year On Twitter description: Looks like Donald Trump isn't forgetting about his "many enemies" as the new year begins. canonical: https://time.com/4619941/donald-trump-new-years-eve-tweet/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-31T18:41:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:48.330Z og:title: Donald Trump Just Wished His 'Many Enemies' a Happy New Year on Twitter og:description: The president-elect shared a message for the end of 2016 og:url: https://time.com/4619941/donald-trump-new-years-eve-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc67886303ba1ea95/6988b436196cf45adc03e60f/donald-trump-new-years-eve-wish-twitter-enemies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4983 og:image:height: 2803 og:image:alt: donald trump new years eve wish twitter enemies og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Just Wished His 'Many Enemies' a Happy New Year on Twitter twitter:description: The president-elect shared a message for the end of 2016 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc67886303ba1ea95/6988b436196cf45adc03e60f/donald-trump-new-years-eve-wish-twitter-enemies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Just Wished His 'Many Enemies' a Happy New Year On Twitter > Sponsored content. 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President-elect Donald Trump surrounded by Christmas trees speaks during an event in West Allis, WI on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016.The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Dec 31, 2016 6:41 PM UTC President-elect [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4619337/donald-trump-age-of-computer-technology-internets/) tweeted New Year wishes on [Saturday morning](http://time.com/4514354/what-donald-trumps-early-morning-tweets-mean/), and didn’t forget about what he called his “many enemies.” “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do,” Trump wrote, adding his love at the end. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/815185071317676033) However, it’s not the first time Trump sent holiday wishes to his opponents. The president-elect wished those same “many enemies” a Merry Christmas in 2013: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/415545490688598016) And he threw a bone to “losers” as well in 2014: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/550399835682390016) After an anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks in 2013, he quoted himself tweeting his “best wishes to all, even the haters and losers.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/377947866641485824) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4619941/donald-trump-new-years-eve-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4619941/donald-trump-new-years-eve-tweet/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Just Wished His 'Many Enemies' a Happy New Year On Twitter","datePublished":"2016-12-31T18:41:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:48.330Z","description":"Donald Trump is ending 2016 with a message for \"all\"","url":"https://time.com/4619941/donald-trump-new-years-eve-tweet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc67886303ba1ea95/6988b436196cf45adc03e60f/donald-trump-new-years-eve-wish-twitter-enemies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc67886303ba1ea95/6988b436196cf45adc03e60f/donald-trump-new-years-eve-wish-twitter-enemies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald trump new years eve wish twitter enemies","caption":"Republican presidential-elect Donald Trump USA Thank You Tour 2016","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4619941/donald-trump-new-years-eve-tweet/","name":"Donald Trump Just Wished His 'Many Enemies' a Happy New Year On Twitter"}}]}] ```