That’s nice.

After taking to Truth Social on Christmas Day to be sarcastic about China and Panama ( “Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in ‘repair’ money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about ‘anything,'”), troll Canada (“…Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World. Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!”), the President-Elect concluded with this:

That’s nice too.

Naturally, the Axis media contrasted Trump’s bluster with the official Christmas message from, supposedly, Joe and Jill. President Biden narrated a video tour of the White House that was posted on YouTube late on Christmas Eve. He urged Americans to set aside “all the noise and everything that divides us.” “We’re here on this Earth to care for one another, to love one another,” Biden says in a voiceover while the camera pans past the White House. Christmas decorations. “Too often we see each other as enemies, not as neighbors, not as fellow Americans,” he said. He urged Americans to find a moment of “quiet reflection” to remind themselves to treat each other with dignity and respect, to “live in the light” and remember there was more to unite than divide Americans. “We’re truly blessed to live in this nation,” he said.

Observations:

1. President Biden has some gall spouting a hypocritical message like that after calling Trump supporters “garbage” and heading the most intentionally divisive Presidential term in history culminating in the darkest Presidential campaign in history, in which one party called the other’s candidate the equivalent of Hitler and warned that he would end democracy. Too often “we” see each other as enemies? Wait, who was this guy?

Biden’s message is standard, insincere politician BS, and stinks of it. A chatbot could have written that stuff. Maybe a chatbot did. No one could hear such cliched pablum and think anything but “Yada yada, ramalama-ding-dong.”

2. It is Presidential, however. Dishonest, insulting, fatuous, infuriating, but still Presidential.

3. Trump’s message is not Presidential. It is gratuitously nasty, self-indulgent and inappropriate for a national leader’s message at Christmas. Does it have to be said that “Go to Hell” does not belong in a Christmas message not authored by the Babylon Bee or Ebenezer Scrooge?

4. Both messages are unethical. Trump’s message is inexcusable.

5. This does not bode well.