Melania joins Trump to chat with kids tracking Santa… as president tries to comfort child who is scared of getting coal for Christmas

First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump took part in the Christmas Eve tradition of helping American children track down Santa Claus on Wednesday.

President Trump took calls from children across America on Christmas Eve as he participated in tracking Santa’s movements with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Santa Tracker.

Trump went on the defensive to defend a key component of his domestic energy agenda after a child told him they didn’t want to get coal for Christmas.

Trump asked a child in Kansas what he wanted Santa to bring, and the child replied, “Um, not coal.”

‘Not coal, no you don’t want coal; You mean clean, beautiful coal. ‘I had to do that, I’m sorry,’ Trump replied with a smile on his face.

Energy policy wasn’t the only part of the policy guidance included in the president’s visits with children on Christmas Eve.

Trump also joked about his immigration agenda Wednesday afternoon.

Speaking to a sibling duo from Oklahoma, Trump promised that no “evil Santa” would enter the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in NORAD Santa follow-up phone calls on Christmas Eve from the Mar-a-lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 24, 2025

‘We want to make sure Santa is okay. Santa Claus is a very good person. We want to make sure it hasn’t infiltrated the young people who are calling yet,” Trump said.

‘We will not let a bad Santa Claus into our country. So we learned that Santa Claus is good. “Santa loves you,” the president continued.

‘Santa loves Oklahoma just like I do. “You know, Oklahoma treated me very well in the election, so I love Oklahoma,” Trump continued.

Over the course of a series of speeches, Trump brought up his election victories, which he “actually won three times,” in states from which the callers came, including Pennsylvania.

Bill Schwamle of Longmont, Colo., puts on a shirt as a volunteer while responding to calls from people wondering where Santa Claus is on his journey around the world at a call center at NORAD Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025

First Lady Melania Trump calls out children while participating in tracking Santa’s movements with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Santa Tracker on Christmas Eve on December 24, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida

Trump’s comments were in line with the Department of Energy Post made on x Earlier on Wednesday he heralded ‘Nice Clean Coal’.

First Lady Melania Trump joined the president as he took calls from a festively decorated room in Palm Beach, Florida.

During their roughly twenty-minute broadcast call, the president and first lady tracked Santa’s whereabouts across Europe, including Denmark and Sweden.

This is the 70th year that NORAD has publicly tracked Santa’s sleigh around the world.

The Daily Mail spoke to US Army Capt. Alex Werden, NORAD Tracks Santa program manager, who explained that around 400,000 children will call the Colorado Springs base this year to find out where Santa is.

‘Last year our peak was between 5pm and 7pm [Mountain Time]. We received approximately 60,000 calls per hour during each of those two hours,” Werden said.

He added that thanks to a major technological update in 2025, children now have more ways than ever to follow Santa’s journey, including the main phone line at 1-877-HI-NORAD.

To meet the intense demand for information about Santa’s flight, this year’s military tracking program has been upgraded with a fully web-based call center, web search through Twilio, and Amazon Connect for better handling of global calls.

Because the Colorado base speaks to children of all nationalities, interpreters fluent in 200 languages ​​provided by Interpreters Unlimited will also be on hand for international calls, allowing military members to answer questions without language barriers.

The army captain added that 1,000 volunteers will also be on hand tonight, using laptops and headsets to take calls, checking Santa’s real-time location on NORAD’s tracking map and telling callers exactly when he will arrive at their home.