Posted on 12/26/2018 4:49:19 PM PST by Ennis85
The seven-year-old girl whose phone call with President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve went viral has said she still believes in Santa Claus.
Mr Trump threw doubt on the existence of Santa when he asked Collman Lloyd if she still believed in Father Christmas.
After learning the girl's age, the president asked: "At seven, it's marginal, right?"
"Yes, sir," the girl replied. She later admitted she did not know the word's meaning, the Post and Courier reports.
Collman, from Lexington in South Carolina, also told the newspaper that she was glad to be able to talk with the US president.
"I was like, 'wow'. I was shocked.
"It wasn't really (nerve-wracking), I just had to think of what the truth was."
She added that after speaking to Mr Trump, she and her family left iced sugar biscuits and chocolate milk out for Santa Claus.
Those offerings were gone in the morning, and under a Christmas tree, there was a wrapped present with Collman's name on it.
So, what about the Santa phone call?
The scene was the grand State Dining Room in the White House.
Donald Trump and his wife Melania were taking calls from American children as the couple sat under two gargantuan Christmas trees.
All the children who called in had done so in the hope of getting through to Norad, the government agency that tracks Santa's movements around the world at Christmas (that still operated despite a partial government shutdown).
Some of those calls were patched through to Mr Trump and his wife.
And this is how the conversation between Collman and the president unfolded:
Trump: What you gonna do for Christmas?
Collman: I think we'll probably put out some cookies, and then we're hanging out with our friends. That's pretty much all.
Trump: You just
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She will be an adult the rest of her life, let her be a kid for just a little while.
I’ve been in a room with a Mr. Trump before. He’s not a people person. He really isn’t a good conversationalist.
That’s ok though, he scares the H3LL out of our enemies and that’s all I need.
I am the oldest kid in my family. I pretended to believe as long as I could, knowing Santa had to keep coming for the young-uns. Worked quite a few years!
I stopped believing in Santa when I was five. I asked my grandfather if he was real and he told me no. I asked “Who buys the presents?” and he said my parents did. I didn’t care as long as I got them.
I find it strange that a parent would allow a kid to believe in Santa Claus under any circumstance, but to age seven?
The girl is right now living in a make-believe world. How can that be beneficial?
Never believe in Santa? Whatchoo talkin bout Willis?
It’s my guess that she is still allowed to be innocent.
Would it be that all children were allowed such a luxury.
I still believe in Santa and I’m 53.
Sure she does.
Does anyone else think it’s beyond sick that the media tracked down and hounded this little girl to create yet another hit piece on trump?
Damn right I believe.
Santa isn’t real, but girls can have penises and boys can menstruate. We must not fill children’s heads with nonsense. / s
As for me and grandpa, we believe
The incoming House will start an investigation of this incident.
I let my mother believe that I still believed in Santa as long as I could.
Seemed like the compassionate thing to do at the time.
“Would it be that all children were allowed such a luxury.”
Why is it a luxury to teach a child to believe, from their heart, a lie?
at seven most children realize that Santa is mom and dad, the girl had a five year old sibling and my bet is that she is at the age where its back and fourth as far as believing with the claim of belief being for the benefit of the five year old.
I was referring to the luxury of remaining innocent.
Need a lot more context to give credence to your statement....
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