<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The phone rings. Would your 10-year-old like to speak with the president? He's tracking Santa Claus from his living room in Palm Beach.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Santa is a very good person,"</span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/donald-trump" rel="" target="" title=" President Donald Trump"><span> President Donald Trump</span></a><span>, in a suit and gold tie, tells Jasper in Tulsa.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. So we found out that Santa is good. Santa loves you. Santa loves Oklahoma, like I do. You know Oklahoma was very good to me in the election. So I love Oklahoma. Don't ever leave Oklahoma, okay?"</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/2025-christmas-celebrations-australia-world-pictures/6b69a6f9-36c7-4447-9b30-d007d51b5e5e" rel="" target="" title=" Christmas festivities return to Bondi"><strong><span> Christmas festivities return to Bondi</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Okay, Jasper says.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Next one, general.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump is speaking to children whose calls to NORAD to track Santa have been patched through to Mar-a-Lago. It's a presidential tradition.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/donald-trump-trump-tells-10yearold-child-he-made-sure-a-bad-santa-is-not-infiltrating-the-us/2d9f3a65-76c1-4b05-997b-edac81ffc51a" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I figure you should hear all of this," he tells his audience of reporters, who are watching from beside the Venetian silk panels and Romanesque columns at Trump's gilded Florida resort. His speakerphone is on, but his wife's is not.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/christmas-day-2025-weather-forecast-bureau-of-meteorology-australia/df4ba481-c3f4-4621-8ac0-7e8132c32e5a"><strong><span>White Christmas for parts of Tasmania as sun shines on Bondi</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She's very focused. The first lady's very focused," he said, peering around the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/christmas" rel="" target="" title="Christmas "><span>Christmas </span></a><span>tree to where Melania Trump is sitting, receiver to ear.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She doesn't look up.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I think it's best if they go to sleep," the first lady says into her receiver, with her back to the president. "And then Santa will arrive to your house."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She's able to focus totally without listening to this," the president says. "At least you know what's happening."</span></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2025/12/25/12/30/2025-christmas-celebrations-australia-world-pictures"><img alt="Christmas festivities have return to Bondi Beach, less than two weeks after the terror attack which killed 15." sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/Ue02rsYa5eT8ft3PRe67wZf6f6o=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F57a6630b-c674-4e1c-af54-5fd6323c36d3" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/Ue02rsYa5eT8ft3PRe67wZf6f6o=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F57a6630b-c674-4e1c-af54-5fd6323c36d3 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/s-l0CKJz_X7PIjm_lf3CZdQoKD4=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F57a6630b-c674-4e1c-af54-5fd6323c36d3 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">Christmas festivities return to Bondi</div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2025/12/25/12/30/2025-christmas-celebrations-australia-world-pictures">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An eight-year-old in North Carolina is next.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You sound so beautiful and cute! You sound so smart," the president tells Savannah, who is wondering: "Will Santa ever get mad if we don't leave him out any cookies?"</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He won't get mad," Trump replies, after asking Savannah to repeat her question. "But I think he'll be very disappointed. You know, Santa, he tends to be a little bit on the cherubic side. You know what cherubic means? A little on the heavy side."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Another glance over to the first lady, engrossed in conversation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This way you can hear what's going on. I think it's a little bit better," he says, pointing to his speakerphone. "One-sided calls are never good, but they're less much less dangerous."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The military is tracking Santa over Sweden, the general informs Trump.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"So Santa's got quite a trip to get to your part of the world," he tells Amelia in Kansas. "Five hours from now, Santa will be coming down your chimney."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Amelia is worried about coal in her stocking.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/after-missing-deadline-doj-says-it-may-need-a-few-more-weeks-to-finish-releasing-epstein-files/13c6d170-32ae-4550-a21b-0edfaf351b33" rel="" target="" title='DOJ needs a "few more weeks" to release Epstein files after millions more found'><strong><span>DOJ needs a "few more weeks" to release Epstein files after millions more found</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You mean clean, beautiful coal?" Trump asks. "I had to do that, I'm sorry."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Next one, general. The line is quiet.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You like the room everybody? No ceiling height problem," the president says to fill the silence, glancing up toward the gold-leaf coffering. "Hey general?"</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A five-year-old in Pennsylvania is standing by.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Pennsylvania is great. We won Pennsylvania actually, three times, but we won Pennsylvania. We won it in a landslide. So I love Pennsylvania," Trump declares.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Santa is now above Copenhagen.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/north-korea-displays-apparent-progress-in-construction-of-nuclearpowered-submarine/c985132a-7b09-4d63-9ba5-e279cf478735"><strong><span>North Korea displays progress in construction of nuclear-powered submarine</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Could do this all day long," the president proclaims. "We have to get back to China, Russia, Ukraine. We have to get back to other things, but this, you could do this all day long. Okay, general, we're ready."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Melania Trump has hung up her phone.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"How are you doing, first lady?" the president asks from across the room.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I'm waiting for a phone call," she replies.</span></div></div>