Bishops Asked for Mercy, Got Scorn: GovBrief #328

Breaking: Trump posts 121 social media messages in 83 minutes early Christmas morning.

Catholic bishops asked the administration to pause immigration enforcement for Christmas. They got a two-sentence brushoff. That’s better than the numerous death threats Bishop Mariann Budde received in January when she asked for mercy at the inaugural service, but it doesn’t feel like progress.

Christmas arrived. ICE shot a driver in Maryland using the same justification that video contradicted in September when they shot someone else. The administration paid $100,000 per person to send 75 migrants to a Pacific island with no way home. They’re building warehouse detention for 80,000 in spaces designed for Amazon packages. And the president couldn’t talk to children for 20 minutes without relitigating 2020 and warning about “bad Santa” infiltrating the country.

They were asked to show mercy. They said no. Then they showed us exactly who they are, stripping away even the thinnest pretense of a holiday season.

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Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly. We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, or Weak Law Enforcement. What we do have is a Record Stock Market and 401K’s, Lowest Crime numbers in decades, No Inflation, and yesterday, a 4.3 GDP, two points better than expected. Tariffs have given us Trillions of Dollars in Growth and Prosperity, and the strongest National Security we have ever had. We are respected again, perhaps like never before. God Bless America!!! President DJT

Donald Trump's Christmas message, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, on December 24, 2025.