Trump keeps his personal thanksgiving tradition alive with special Truth Social message
The president-elect has a unique style when it comes to spreading holiday cheer
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump is getting into the holiday spirit by keeping to his own, unique annual tradition: sharing a ranting Thanksgiving message on Truth Social.
The president-elect has a unique style when it comes to spreading holiday cheer and this year singled out the “radical left lunatics” in his note to Americans.
“Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump posted on Truth Social in the early hours of Thursday morning.
“Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!”
The festive message is a tone warmer than last year’s, where he unleashed on the key figures in his $454m civil fraud case, including the so-called “Racist & Incompetent” New York Attorney General Letitia James, “the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge”, “Psycho” Justice Arthur Engoron and “his Politically Biased & Corrupt Campaign Finance Violator” court clerk Alison Greenfield.
Last Christmas, Trump also delivered an equally scathing message to President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Jack Smith: “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
The Trumps will be marking Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, their Florida residence.
On Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve, Mark Zuckerberg was spotted having a meeting with the Republican at the residence.
As well as his election win, this Thanksgiving, Trump will be celebrating Smith’s announcement earlier this week that he is dropping both the 2020 election interference case and the classified documents case against him.
The decision by the federal prosecutor was announced in two separate motions, filed on Monday.
In his motion to dismiss the federal election interference case, Smith wrote that there was precedent to not bring an indictment or proceedings against a sitting president.
However, he stressed that the decision had been made due to the recommendations of the Justice Department rather than the strength of the case against the president-elect.
Meanwhile, Trump’s legal team has asked AG James to also drop the multimillion-dollar civil fraud penalty against him.
On Tuesday, Dr John Sauer, Trump’s attorney, said dropping the case was “necessary for the health of our Republic.”
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