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December 24, 2025 12:49 pm EST Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
Coffee. Photo by Jonathan Thursfield.

It’s Wednesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

12/24/2025:

7:30 AM
Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time
Because nothing says “leader of the free world” like herding reporters before sunrise.

4:30 PM
THE PRESIDENT participates in NORAD Santa Calls
Palm Beach, Florida
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
A magical tradition where a grown adult cosplays competence while Santa does the heavy lifting.

5:30 PM
THE PRESIDENT participates in Service Member Calls
Palm Beach, Florida
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
The part of the day where tone shifts abruptly from elf hotline to solemn patriotism.

That’s it. Three bullets. One full day.
You can practically hear the interns padding the schedule so it doesn’t look like “woke up, got mad, talked on the phone.”

President Who Needs Visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future took to “Lie’s Social” after midnight on Christmas Eve, apparently skipping redemption and going straight to the rant. He resurfaced an old monologue from Stephen Colbert, demanded his audience weigh in on the “worst” late-night TV host currently breathing, and once again floated the promise to violate the Constitution even more enthusiastically in the days to come.

Nothing to see here. Just President Puddle, liquefying in public over a monologue by Stephen Colbert that originally aired on December 8, 2025, and casually suggesting that a human being should be “put to sleep” for “humanitarian” reasons.

The monolog (12/08/2025):

What part of the monolog upset President Puddle?

Stephen Colbert: On Saturday, Trump talked about some of the other people who have hosted the Kennedy Center Honors before him in the past, and he pre-complained about how people will judge his hosting.

[Colbert runs a clip of President Puddle]:

President Puddle:

We very much appreciate it. Now we’re going to go to the State Department with Secretary of State, Rubio, and have a special event, something which was never done before, but we never had a president hosting the awards before. This is the first.

[Colbert’s clips starts here]: I’m sure they’ll give me great reviews, right? They’ll say, “he was horrible. He was terrible. It was a horrible situation.” No, we’ll do fine.

I’ve watched some of the people that host. Jimmy Kimmel was horrible. Some of these people… If I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don’t think I should be president. [Colbert’s clip ends here].

But I want to just thank you all, because this is a special night. And I think you’re going to see that at the end of this evening, and by the end of these two days, you’re going to say this is one of the most special days in your life. And I think a few of you have already told me it already was.

Tweeted Clip. 12/06/2025.

Stephen Colbert: You can’t and you shouldn’t. Also, just a quick brain check for uh Grandpa *Podenskull. I checked, and Jimmy Kimmel has never hosted the Kennedy Center Honors. But here’s the thing. I did, the three years leading up to Trump becoming president.

*it’s something skull*

After airing his grievance against Colbert, President Puddle moved on to polling his followers about who they believe is the worst late-night host.

The sequence was brief: a poll, more threats against broadcasters and the Constitution, then a Merry Christmas.


The Newish Items:

Axios reported on Tuesday that the Department of Justice would take about another week to release the remaining Epstein file documents. The outlet also reported that the White House has taken over the Department of Justice’s Twitter account.

The Trump administration estimates it has about one week to go — and as many as 700,000 more pages to review — before it finishes releasing all the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Axios. 12/23/2025.
  • Meanwhile, they’ll lose the PR war, day after day.

Why it matters: No other controversy has sandbagged President Trump and his administration like the Epstein files, the subject of a rare revolt by congressional Republicans and endless guilt-by-association news stories and social media commentary.

Axios. 12/23/2025.
  • Trump and the Justice Department also have compounded their problems with clumsy messaging and puzzling redactions made while pledging transparency.
  • The White House has begun managing the DOJ’s account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress.
  • The account is also taking on a sharper tone that has more of a rapid-response campaign edge and less of the stodgy just-the-facts tone associated with the department.

Speaking about the Epstein Files…

I saw this post a lot so tracked it down to confirm it was real.

There is always a tweet.

Because cruelty apparently needed a holiday theme, the White House spent Christmas week escalating its attacks on undocumented workers. The administration’s official YouTube channel followed suit, livestreaming an AI-generated “naughty list” video that casts the president as Santa instead of the Grinch.

A screen grab:

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE, everyone. I hope you have a wonderful day and be safe in any travels.

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