Eric Trump this week made the insane claim that part of the reason that his father is running for president is that the National Christmas Tree at the White House has been renamed the “Holiday Tree.” Which, as you can see, it has not. Buzzfeed has the quote:

“He opens up the paper each morning and sees our nation’s leaders giving a hundred billion dollars to Iran, or he opens the paper and some new school district has just eliminated the ability for its students to say the pledge of allegiance, or some fire department in some town is ordered by the mayor to no longer fly the American flag on the back of a fire truck,” Trump told James Robison in an interview posted this week. “Or he sees the tree on the White House lawn has been renamed ‘holiday tree’ instead of ‘Christmas tree,’” continued Trump. “I could go on and on for hours. Those are the very things that made my father run, and those are the very things he cares about.”

The National Christmas Tree will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2023.

