Donald Trump tweeted a missive against President Obama this morning, “What a convenient mistake: @BarackObama issued a statement for Kwanza but failed to issue one for Christmas.” At first take, this would seem to be an astoundingly embarrassing blunder on the President’s part, impressively uncovered by Trump. How could the President forget about Christmas? Until, you remember that the President actually released a taxpayer funded video wishing Americans a Merry Christmas just this weekend.

Yesterday on The Five, Eric Bolling ran out of time for a segment on the single thing that angered him most over the weekend: Bill Maher‘s “joke” about footballer Tim Tebow being forsaken by Jesus over the weekend (it was a little more explicit than that). Bolling reacted to the disgusting display predictably, and was joined by the crew– including a particularly vocal Bob Beckel– in tearing Maher apart.

Over the Christmas weekend, news came out the Republican semi-frontrunner Newt Gingrich was planning a shift in his campaign to “pets and music.” That doesn’t seem to be the only shift from serious to lighthearted however, if this video of Gingrich’s New Hampshire office holiday greeting is any indication.

One of the first things we learn about Christmas as children, way before we learn where those gifts come from, is how to react when we get a bad one. However, even with that being the case and the nation facing difficult economic times, there are still people who feel the need to complain on [...]

So this happened yesterday. Not much is known about the following video, except that it has just begun to go viral. Why? Well it appears that a young woman did not care for one of her Christmas presents, Ron Paul‘s Liberty Defined. In fact, after reading a portion of the book in which the GOP presidential candidate refers to Israel as an “apartheid state,” the young woman was moved to tears of disappointment. A Christmas miracle!

Merry Christmas, all of you who are here either because you don’t celebrate this holiday or because you’re trying to escape your egg nog-soaked nightmare of a family! Yay! Did you all have fun opening your presents this morning, assuming today isn’t just a particular quiet Sunday for you? Gifts, after all, are the reason for the season (Right?). So why don’t we go ahead and devote some time to staring at a few people who looooove things, particularly the receiving of things wrapped up in colorful paper? Let’s! Let’s!

On Fox News’s The Five‘s Christmas Special, the political commentator quintet gave each other Secret Santa gifts.

Bob Beckel assured the viewing audience that there was a Santa, before the group cracked into a boatload of presents.

Christmas is a time to be open and forgiving, but not if you work in the world of cable news. And on MSNBC yesterday, Ed Schultz dumped a huge pile of coal on Fox & Friends for focusing on some of the lesser-reported aspects of the holiday season involving possible new EPA regulations and potential lawsuits you could face over the holiday season. I always just assumed the “Psycho Talk” segment was devoted to, you know, psycho talk. But Schultz honed in on the threesome not for anything they said, but for their “unseasonal” tone.

‘Tis the season to be jolly, but oh how the humbuggery finds its way into this joyous occasion every year. And lo and behold, ABC’s 20/20 focused on some real-life Grinches who don’t particularly care for the gaudy light displays and elaborate decorations on front lawns all across the country. Some houses, like one featured in the report, have gone all-out for the Christmas season, literally covering their houses in lights.

Oh, man. If you aren’t in the holiday spirit after watching this video, nothing’s gonna do it for you. CBS has posted a mash-up video of every performance the great Darlene Love has done on The Late Show with David Letterman. Every year since 1986 (with the exception of writers’ strike year 2007), Love has appeared on the last episode of the calendar year and performs her “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and every year it’s amazing. This video captures all the appearances with the many different back-up vocalists, saxophone entrances, and hairstyles and it’s all great. Enjoy!

This Saturday, as with any time an old star comes back to host, Saturday Night Live looked to its past. They recreated a couple of host Jimmy Fallon’s classic sketches and, since the season was right, they even brought back Horatio Sanz, Tracy Morgan, and Chris Kattan to perform “I Wish It Was Christmas Today,” the holiday hit they first did back in 2000. The goofy tune is actually one of the few Christmas songs not written 50 years ago to have had much staying power so its unsurprising that Fallon and Sanz have performed it a number of times in the past decade. We’ve collected all the different versions below.

Every holiday season, many news outlets put together inspirational and heartwarming stories to fit the season. They’re always a joy to watch and, as we watch so many here at Mediaite, it’s hard not to start picking favorites. Last year, the best may have been a delightful tale from The New York Times and it looks like we may have an early favorite for 2011. CBS wrapped up the evening news tonight by recounting the tale of a little girl from North Carolina who asked Santa to bring her father, a contractor in Iraq, home for the holidays.

Whoops! Fox News‘ technical wizardry is usually quite adept (minus a few chyron errors now and then) but on Friday, things got a bit spacey in their control room.

We are smack dab in the middle of the holiday season so chances are good that, at some point recently, you or someone you know had a bit too much to drink at a Christmas Party, office holiday party, stressful family dinner, or in the dressing room of your local mall’s Macy’s because, dammit, why won’t this shopping just end?! If so, then you’ll probably get a kick out of the latest edition of Drunk History. For those that don’t know, it’s a web series created by Derek Waters for Funny or Die in which he gets his comedian friends incredibly drunk, has them attempt to retell famous, historical stories, and then gets celebrities to reenact the resulting ramblings (this Ben Franklin story featuring Jack Black will give you an idea). The most recent episode is a special Christmas episode featuring Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey, Eva Mendes, and a not particularly faithful retelling of “T’was the Night Before Christmas.”

On Wednesday, President Obama went Christmas shopping for his daughter’s presents at a Best Buy store in Alexandria, Virginia and found himself in a unique conundrum: he wasn’t sure if his credit card would still be accepted.

Just in time for TBS’s annual Christmas 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story, a few of the stars of the frequently-seen 1983 holiday chestnut joined the ladies of The View.

With Christmas under a week away, and Hanukkah starting today, you likely have a refrigerator door full of holiday cards at home right now, featuring friends, family, and awkwardly dressed kids whose names you can’t remember. There might even be a dog or two in there. Perhaps the kids are making snow angels. Here at Mediaite, we get our fair share of cards, too. They’re just not as trite.

Still shopping for the perfect gift for your loved ones? How about cosmetic surgery? On Tuesday’s Good Morning America, a woman named Nicole announced she was letting her sister Tina have a very Heidi Montag Christmas by giving her the gift of Botox injections for the Yuletide.

>When I think of Christmas, my mind obviously and immediately turns to everyone favorite and jolliest North Pole resident, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto. In this year’s installment of his “Annual Christmas Shopping Tips for Men,” Cavuto kicked off with a word of advice to women viewers: “[I]f I sound sexist, please get over it,” as visions of sugar plums hang limply in our heads.

Pop quiz, hotshot: Your meteoric rise to the top of the Republican nomination for president is derailed by multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, an economic plan from a decade-old video game, and a string of foreign policy gaffes that could wrap around Ubeki-beki-stan-stan twice. What do you do? What do you do?

If you’re Herman Cain, naturally, you put out a Christmas video message so over the top, you need a Newt Gingrich space mirror to see it.

Wednesday morning at about 8 a.m., police in Webster, Tex. (about 25 miles southeast of Houston) started getting calls about two reindeer that were loose on the side of the Gulf Freeway. Understandably skeptical 911 operators — hearing that reindeer were running loose 10 days before Christmas Eve — at first seemed a little hesitant to believe…until more calls began pouring in.

For the past few days, Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart have been going back-and-forth about the War on Christmas and O’Reilly’s pushback against a perceived secularization of the holiday. To quickly recap, after O’Reilly did a whole segment of his program last week on the War on Christmas, Stewart mockingly announced a declaration of war on The Daily Show. O’Reilly responded by joking (?) that Stewart is going to hell, and Stewart shot back by saying he watches Fox News eight hours a day, so he’s already there.

On Friday’s Fox and Friends, the three defenders of the Yuletide were lamenting yet another alleged assault on Christmas, when Gretchen Carlson speculated it was only a matter of time before local authorities forced residents to have to take down their own decorations. Co-host Brian Kilmeade was reading a viewer email that said if “you and your children want to see Christmas displayed, put one up in your own yard. Nobody’s stopping you.” “Well at least not yet!” Carlson exclaimed, spurring off-camera chuckles. “Just wait for the town ordinance when you can’t have it!”

Daily Show host Jon Stewart kept cable news’ war on the War on Christmas raging Thursday night when he shot back at Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly‘s assessment that he was destined for an eternity of hellfire and poorly-lit dressing rooms. After calling O’Reilly “one of Santa’s unusually large elves,” Stewart seemed shocked – shocked – that the Fox News personality had so casually condemned him to Hell.

On Wednesday, Bill O’Reilly took a look at Daily Show host Jon Stewart‘s excitement over the “War On Christmas,” particularly with Fox News’ coverage of one community’s “tree lighting ceremony.” “If there has been a war,” a clip showed Stewart telling his viewers, “then Christmas is the aggressor nation.”