President Trump Participates in NORAD Santa Calls

Hello. Good. Very good. Let's start. We're ready. Let me speak with the First Lady, speak to the children.

Not yet. Hello.

Well thank you very much General. Very good. We have the First Lady here... and I think she'll be answering calls separately actually. She'll be talking to some, I'll be talking to some.

You have North America to track Santa. Before we connect you to each caller, a member of our team will briefly share the child's first name, age, and city and state where they're calling from, as well as they'll give you Santa's current location. Then there's going to be a brief pause as we connect the child's call and then they'll be placed straight down the line with you. And then you'll hear our team let the child know that they're connected with you, the President.

That sounds great, General. Do you have any questions? Okay. General, thank you very much. Go ahead.

Mr. President, I'm now connecting you to Anastasia who is four years old and Jasper who is 10 years old. They live in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and Santa is currently headed for Prague, Czech Republic.

Oh, very good. That's very exciting. Good. Let me have them.

Hello.

Hello, hi. How are you? This is the President. Hello. Oh my goodness. Jasper, Annie, hello. Hold on one second.

Hello friends.

The President. How are you? Hi, Mr. Trump. Hello everybody. Hi. I love Oklahoma, by the way. Thank you, Merry Christmas to you. Hi. Merry Christmas. Thank you very much, honey. Very much... very happy Christmas and happy New Year to you.

Do you know where he's flying over?

Do you have a question to ask?

He's over Germany right now, so in a few hours then he will be at your house at the same time. Yeah, I know. What did you ask Santa to bring you?

Go ahead, you can take your time.

A doll...

Oh, go ahead.

And Santa has a tracker on him. Yes, I hope he will be nice. Yes. He said how come he has a tracker on him?

Well, we track Santa all over the world. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. You know, Santa's a very good person. 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?

Okay, I'll try.

Good. That's good. Annie, you got a question?

Go ahead, honey. Do you want to ask when Santa's going to be here? Okay, ready? Go. When is Santa going to be here?

Well, Santa's gonna stop over tonight, leave you a lot of beautiful presents. Like really beautiful presents. What do you want more than anything else? What present would you like?

Hello, Emily. Hello, Merry Christmas. Do you have a big family?

A dollhouse.

Wow, a dollhouse. Oh, I think we can work that out. I have a feeling, Mommy, that we can work that out, right? I think Santa's going to bring you the most beautiful dollhouse you've ever seen, okay? Let me know how good the dollhouse is, but we owe a lot to Santa, so I think Santa will fulfill your wish, okay? Thank you, honey. Take care of yourself. Merry Christmas. Say hello to Oklahoma. We love Oklahoma, okay? Thank you. All right, Merry Christmas, thank you. Thank you, darling. Thank you very much. Okay, next.

Emily, can you hear me? Maybe she's shy, right? Just talked to Santa... Santa is now over Romania.

Figure you should hear some of this, otherwise you're not going to know what's going on. And she's very good at not listening to this. She's very focused. First Lady's very focused. Okay, you can go ahead, next one. General.

I think it will be wonderful if they are very dark, very dark.

Yes, Mr. President, we're about to drop the next one in... on your line, just one moment.

Yes, I think it's best if they go to sleep, Emily, it's best if you go to sleep, and then Santa will arrive to your house.

Do you like this better, hearing it? It's better for you. Yes sir, yes sir. And she's able to focus totally without listening to this. At least this way you know what's happening, right?

Mr. President, are we good?

Okay, go ahead.

Thank you, thank you very much.

Mr. President, we are passing you to Savannah, she's eight years old and she's from Salisbury, North Carolina.

Good. Good. Hi, how are you? Merry Christmas.

Yes, it is... hi, how are you? Santa Claus loves to be on your family.

Yes, hello, hi. How are you doing? Okay? Hi, how are you? I'm fine. You sound so beautiful and cute. How old are you?

I'm eight.

Wow, so smart. You sound so smart. So do you have a question for Santa or do you want to know anything about Santa?

So, I only have one question.

Go ahead.

So, um, I don't know... so, will Santa ever get mad if we don't leave him out any cookies?

This was getting good. Go ahead, say it again, honey. Go ahead. Will Santa ever get mad if we don't leave him out any cookies? I think he won't get mad, but I think he'll be very disappointed. You know, Santa's... he tends to be a little on the cherubic side. You know what cherubic means? A little on the heavy side. I think Santa would like some cookies. You'd like to leave some cookies for Santa, right?

Oh, hello Emily. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you. Do you have any questions to ask Santa? He's over Germany right now, so in a few hours then he will be at your house.

Yes.

But you're not going to forget, you'll leave some. I would leave them. I think Santa has a serious appetite.

Yes.

Right? And it's so good to talk to you. Are you looking for something specific from Santa? What would you like to have as a present?