US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participated in the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, which is nearly a century-old White House tradition. Formally kicking off the Christmas celebrations across the country on Thursday, the First Lady lighted the 30-foot Colorado blue spruce tree from Palmyra in Pennsylvania. Fifty-six smaller trees surrounding the National Christmas Tree were also lighted. These trees featured one-of-a-kind ornaments, representing every US state, territory and the District of Columbia. "On behalf of Melania and our entire family, Merry Christmas and God bless you all," Trump told a gathering of hundreds of people who assembled near the Ellipse just outside the White House to witness the annual event. The ceremony dated back to 1923 when the then president Calvin Coolidge walked from the White House to the Ellipse to light a 48-foot fir tree decorated with 2,500 electric bulbs in red, white and green, as a local choir and a "quartet" ...
President Donald Trump helped light the National Christmas Tree on Thursday, taking part in a nearly century-old holiday tradition in the nation's capital. (Dec. 5)
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have lit the National Christmas Tree on Thursday night at the Ellipse in President's Park in front of the White House. Watch the ceremony here.
For the third time in his presidency, President Donald Trump counted down the crowd on the Ellipse outside the White House to the ceremonial lighting of the National Christmas Tree.
Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren came to Melania Trump's defense Thursday after the First lady was on the receiving end of online mockery for the White House Christmas tree display, which she debuted earlier this week.