Over the next 35 minutes, the president threatened to fire one of his cabinet members, attacked former President Barack Obama, dissed his former rival Hillary Clinton, marveled at the size of the crowd, warned the boys about the "fake media," mocked pollsters and pundits and said more people would say "Merry Christmas" under his presidency. He also told a rambling tale about a famous, now-deceased homebuilder that meandered from a Manhattan cocktail party to a yacht and then to places that the president would only allow the boys' imaginations to go.