That one time Megyn Kelly claimed Santa was a historical person, and he was definitely white. YouTube/tpmtv America's Fox News wants to make one thing clear: Santa is not black.

Presenter Megyn Kelly made the pronouncement while discussing a piece by Slate’s Aisha Harris on her show The Kelly File - in the piece, Harris wrote of seeing a white Santa in the local shopping mall, and a black Santa in her own home. She proposed creating a more inclusive Christmas symbol: a penguin.

At this, Kelly pauses to deliver a message to the children undoubtedly watching this late night news programme:

By the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa is white but this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa. Santa is what he is…I wanted to get that straight.

She goes on to say: