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The campaign against “Merry Christmas” and other uses of the word “Christmas” is a war on Christianity or, more precisely, a war on the religious nature of America.
That same year, Trump tweeted on Christmas Eve: “People are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again. I am proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase.
Trump claims people only say ‘Merry Christmas’ because of him Polls show an overwhelming majority of Americans do not care what phrase people use as a holiday greeting Graig Graziosi ...
Merry can be a euphemism for “drunk,” though this use was often considered vulgar in the 18th century. In the Middle Ages, Christmas was firmly in the merry category.
During the first Christmas radio address, King George V used the word happy instead of merry (you can actually listen to the original recording here, which is pretty cool).
It may be surprising to learn that it’s 'Merry Christmas' that has the earliest known use, appearing in writing in the early 1500s. The earliest example in the Oxford English Dictionary comes ...
Donald Trump promised to bring “Merry Christmas” back, and on his first Noel as president he seems to have done that — and more. Americans were already in a long-standing debate about ...
On Christmas day, Patrick Shyu, a YouTuber with nearly 1.5 million subscribers and former tech lead for Google and Meta, provided one of the Christmas season’s most spot-on Ebeneezer Scrooge ...
‘Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays’ Even Has an Animated Music Video If the original music video doesn’t do it for you, ‘NSync released an animated version in November 2023.