Donald Trump tells girl "Santa will be coming down your chimney" during NORAD holiday phone call
“Santa will be coming down your chimney and have a beautiful present for you. What would you like Santa to bring?”
Reported August 28, 2026 by ksut.org. Checked word for word against that report.
During a holiday phone session with children, assisted by NORAD, President Donald Trump asked an 8-year-old Kansas girl what she wanted Santa to bring; after she said she hoped to avoid getting coal, he joked about coal’s virtues. The exchange appears in a report about the Navajo Nation, where roughly 10,000 homes still lack electricity and many families rely on coal for winter warmth. The Navajo Transitional Energy Company operates a roughly $3 million annual program providing free coal to all 110 Navajo chapters and a dozen Hopi villages, including 130 bulk deliveries this season. The program expanded after the 2019 closure of the Kayenta Mine, and tribal leaders have pledged to keep local mining and power generation operating to preserve jobs and revenue.
- ksut.org ↗︎28 AUG 2026