Trump assures child that a "bad" Santa Claus is being watched so he doesn't enter the U.S.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Wednesday a child that he will make sure that a "bad" Santa Claus does not infiltrate the country, during the traditional Christmas Eve call in which children can track Santa Claus's route. The president and first lady, Melania Trump, participated from their private mansion in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in the call center that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) organizes each year, where children can ask questions about Santa. "We monitor Santa all over the world because we want to make sure he's good. Santa is a good person. We want to make sure he's not an infiltrator, that a bad Santa doesn't infiltrate our country," Trump explained to the first child, who called from Oklahoma.

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The Republican leader, who has implemented a tough immigration policy, added that he loves Oklahoma because he won the elections there and asked it to "never" leave that state. Trump asked another girl what gift she wants for Christmas and she replied that she doesn't want coal, to which the president, a defender of fossil fuels, joked that coal is "clean and beautiful". To someone from Pennsylvania, a state where Trump also defeated the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, the president said with a laugh: "I hope your mother voted the right way." He told another minor that he surely has a "high IQ" and assured that the country needs more people like that. The president and the first lady were sitting in golden armchairs on either side of a Christmas tree and answered calls to landlines. During the afternoon, Norad was informing Trump of Santa Claus's route, who passed through the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Denmark, data that the president transmitted to the children. This tradition was born 70 years ago, in 1955, when the Sears department store published an advertisement in a Colorado newspaper inviting children to call Santa Claus, but by mistake the ad included the telephone number of Colonel Harry Shoup, of the Continental Air Defense Command (Conad), predecessor of Norad. That Christmas, Shoup received hundreds of calls from children and decided that it was necessary to create a volunteer center to help the little ones better understand Santa Claus's journey.