--- title: Donald Trump, Melania Trump Share Christmas Day Greeting description: President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump shared a Christmas Day address with the nation on Christmas Day 2017. canonical: https://time.com/5079160/president-trump-merry-christmas-melania/ author: Jamie Ducharme article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-25T15:41:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:40:41.561Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump, First Lady Share Holiday Greeting og:description: ‘MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!’ og:url: https://time.com/5079160/president-trump-merry-christmas-melania/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd363106a9c4e84/6988f68286f68eca726e7b73/president-trump-christmas.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 95th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump, First Lady Share Holiday Greeting twitter:description: ‘MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!’ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd363106a9c4e84/6988f68286f68eca726e7b73/president-trump-christmas.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ‘MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!’ President Trump, First Lady Share Holiday Greetings > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump speaks at the 95th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on November 30, 2017. Paul Morigi—Getty Images  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Dec 25, 2017 3:41 PM UTC President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump wished “America and the entire world” a merry Christmas in a holiday address [posted on Twitter](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/945287222210781184) on Monday. “In the season of joy, we spend time with our families. We renew the bonds of love and goodwill between our citizens. And most importantly, we celebrate the miracle of Christmas,” President Trump says in the video, before quoting from the Book of Isaiah. [Melania Trump](http://time.com/5038040/trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-2017/) used the address to praise Americans coming together to [support the troops](http://time.com/5078908/trump-sends-greetings-to-troops/), their neighbors and their communities during the holiday season. “At this time of year,” Melania Trump says, “we see the best of America and the soul of the American people.” The President ended the video with a holiday message to the nation. “God bless you, God bless America and have a very, very merry Christmas and happy New Year,” he says. The message comes after Trump said on Twitter Sunday that “people are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again,” a reference to the “war on Christmas” and ongoing cultural debate over the proper end-0f-year greeting. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/945126026824298497) You can watch the whole address in the video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5079160/president-trump-merry-christmas-melania/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5079160/president-trump-merry-christmas-melania/"},"headline":"‘MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!’ President Trump, First Lady Share Holiday Greetings","datePublished":"2017-12-25T15:41:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:40:41.561Z","description":"They posted the address on Twitter","url":"https://time.com/5079160/president-trump-merry-christmas-melania/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd363106a9c4e84/6988f68286f68eca726e7b73/president-trump-christmas.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd363106a9c4e84/6988f68286f68eca726e7b73/president-trump-christmas.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"95th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony","caption":"95th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony","creditText":"Paul Morigi—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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5079160/president-trump-merry-christmas-melania/","name":"‘MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!’ President Trump, First Lady Share Holiday Greetings"}}]}] ```