Trump’s wish for peace follows a weekend of Twitter needling

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump’s Christmas wishes include a peaceful America, he said while taking phone calls from children tracking the global travels of Santa’s sleigh — although the president’s social-media activities suggested otherwise. “I think we want peace. What do you think? Peace for the country,” Trump told a young boy. “We’ve got prosperity. Now we want peace,” the president said taking children’s calls from the gilded and tiled living room of Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Florida, club and home.
The boy had told the president that his Christmas wish was for his sick grandmother to return home from the hospital. “That’s better than asking for some toy or something, right?” Trump responded, before sharing his own ambitious wish. The president and first lady Melania Trump spent some time answering calls from kids to the Santa Tracker run by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, following a Christmas Eve tradition of other recent first couples.
The president made classically big, Trumpian promises to the kids, telling one “you’ll wake up and have the greatest gifts.”
To another, Trump said: “I’ll make sure that Santa is going to treat you well. Really well. The best he’s ever treated you.”