--- title: Melania Trump's White House Christmas Decor Become Memes description: Melania Trump decorated the White House for Christmas and the internet couldn't stop with the memes. canonical: https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-28T19:36:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T08:33:00.193Z og:title: Melania Trump's Christmas Decorations Are the Most Wonderful Memes of the Year og:description: The internet got what it wanted: meme material og:url: https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4e7cdbc37a3f28/6988e6f5fb4eac5209894adc/melania-trump-white-house-chirstmas-decorations.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4446 og:image:height: 2501 og:image:alt: melania-trump-white-house-chirstmas-decorations og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Melania Trump's Christmas Decorations Are the Most Wonderful Memes of the Year twitter:description: The internet got what it wanted: meme material twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4e7cdbc37a3f28/6988e6f5fb4eac5209894adc/melania-trump-white-house-chirstmas-decorations.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Melania Trump's Christmas Decorations Gave the Internet the Most Wonderful Memes of the Year > Sponsored content. 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Melania Trump tweeting the video showing her preparing decorations._ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 28, 2017 7:36 PM UTC Melania Trump tweeting the video showing her preparing decorations. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 28, 2017 7:36 PM UTC Christmas came early for the internet thanks to the First Lady’s White House decorations. [With the help of 150 volunteers from 29 states, ](http://time.com/5038040/trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-2017/)[Melania Trump](http://time.com/4972038/melania-trump-fashion-photo-gallery/)[ filled her high-profile home](http://time.com/5038040/trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-2017/) with Balsam fir trees dripping with “icicles” and trimmed with glass ornaments emblazoned with the seal of each state and territory, unveiled Monday. For her entrance from the residence into the Grand Lobby, ballet dancers performed to _The Nutcracker_. “The President, Barron, and I are very excited for our first Christmas in the White House,” the First Lady said in a statement. “As with many families across the country, holiday traditions are very important to us. I hope when visiting the People’s House this year, visitors will get a sense of being home for the holidays.” On the campaign trail, Christmas was a regular [talking point for the President](https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-says-everyone-should-say-merry-christmas-forgets-his-own-happy-holidays-history/). “You go to stores, you don’t see the word Christmas,” Donald Trump said in 2016\. “It says ‘happy holidays’ all over. I say, ‘Where’s Christmas?’ I tell my wife, ‘Don’t go to those stores.’ . . . I want to see Christmas.” And so unsurprisingly, Christmas was on fully display with the theme “Time-Honored Traditions.” Those jars filled to the top with peppermint candies? Cranberry trees? Nods to Nancy Reagan, and the theme continued to deck the halls. None of the photos were ever going to make it out of 2017 without getting the full meme treatment. For internet critics, one photo of a dimly-illuminated decoration-lined hallway was the gift that kept giving. FLOTUS’s Director of Communications Stephanie Grisham’s tweet went viral quickly and predictably. > [](https://twitter.com/StephGrisham45/status/934945910467031041) See below for all of the pop culture comparisons the internet couldn’t resist from _The Chronicles of Narnia_ to _Silent Hill_. > [](https://twitter.com/hownottodraw/status/935186371559297024) > [](https://twitter.com/hownottodraw/status/935186371559297024) > [](https://twitter.com/rahel%5Fhandler/status/935228805010124802) > [](https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/935302669953937409) > [](https://twitter.com/TheDweck/status/935362649545523200) > [](https://twitter.com/TheDweck/status/935227416963715072) > [](https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/935230734633185285) > [](https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/935293715253465089) > [](https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/935249557709041664) > [](https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/935250267414712322) ## Transcript [00:15] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/"},"headline":"Melania Trump's Christmas Decorations Gave the Internet the Most Wonderful Memes of the Year","datePublished":"2017-11-28T19:36:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-12T08:33:00.193Z","description":"The internet got what it wanted: meme material","url":"https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","White House","christmas","Holidays","trump","Melania Trump","onetime","Holiday 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4e7cdbc37a3f28/6988e6f5fb4eac5209894adc/melania-trump-white-house-chirstmas-decorations.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4e7cdbc37a3f28/6988e6f5fb4eac5209894adc/melania-trump-white-house-chirstmas-decorations.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"melania-trump-white-house-chirstmas-decorations","caption":"Melania Trump walks through Christmas decorations in the East Wing","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP/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":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/","name":"Melania Trump's Christmas Decorations Gave the Internet the Most Wonderful Memes of the Year"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"White House Christmas Decorations Video","description":"Melania Trump tweeting the video showing her preparing decorations.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/cGwnAM20/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-11-27T17:00:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/cGwnAM20.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5039367/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-meme/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```