President Donald Trump has told “sleazebags and “losers”  to “enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas” in a rant on social media.

Posting to Truth Social on Christmas Day night (US time), Trump rambled about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The US president wished everyone a Merry Christmas, including the “many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to “drop him like a dog” when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, didn’t know him, said he was a disgusting person.”

Trump continued that he was actually the “only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so”.

“When their names get brought out in the ongoing Radical Left Witch Hunt (plus one lowlife “Republican,” Massie!), and it is revealed that they are Democrats all, there will be a lot of explaining to do.”

Earlier, Trump marked Christmas Eve by quizzing children calling in about what presents they were excited about receiving, while promising not to let a “bad Santa” infiltrate the country and even suggesting a stocking full of coal might not be so bad.

Holidaying at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the president and first lady Melania Trump participated in the tradition of talking to youngsters dialling into the North American Aerospace Defence Command, which playfully tracks Santa’s progress around the globe.

“We want to make sure that Santa is being good. Santa’s a very good person,” Trump said while speaking to children aged four to 10 in Oklahoma.

“We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrated, that we’re not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa.”

He didn’t elaborate.

The president and first lady Melania Trump sat side-by-side and took about a dozen calls between them. Photo: AAP

Trump has often marked Christmases past with criticisms of his political enemies, including in 2024, when he posted, “Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics”.

During his first term, Trump wrote online early on December 24, 2017, targeting a top FBI official he believed was biased against him, as well as the news media.

But Trump was in a jovial mood this time. He even said he “could do this all day long”, but likely would have to get back to more pressing matters like efforts to quell the fighting in Russia’s war with Ukraine.

When an eight-year-old from North Carolina asked if Santa would be mad if no one left cookies out for him, Trump said he didn’t think so.

“But I think he’ll be very disappointed,” he said.

“You know, Santa’s – he tends to be a little bit on the cherubic side. You know what cherubic means? A little on the heavy side,” Trump joked.

“I think Santa would like some cookies.”

The president and first lady Melania Trump sat side-by-side and took about a dozen calls between them.

At one point, while his wife was on the phone and Trump was waiting to be connected to another call, he noted how little attention she was paying to him: “She’s able to focus totally, without listening.”

Asked by an eight-year-old girl in Kansas what she’d like Santa to bring, the answer came back, “Uh, not coal.”

“You mean clean, beautiful coal?” Trump replied, evoking a favoured campaign slogan he’s long used when promising to revive domestic coal production.

“I had to do that, I’m sorry,” the president added, laughing and even causing the first lady, who was on a separate call, to turn toward him and grin.

“Coal is clean and beautiful. Please remember that, at all costs,” Trump said. “But you don’t want clean, beautiful coal, right?”

“No,” the caller responded, saying she’d prefer a Barbie doll, clothes and candy.

One million Epstein documents

Meanwhile, the US Justice Department said it had found more ‍than a million more documents potentially tied to the convicted sex offender Epstein, delaying a full release for weeks while officials redact details to ⁠protect victims.

Trump’s administration began releasing files related to criminal investigations of Epstein, the late American financier who was friends with Trump in the 1990s, to comply with a ‌law passed ​by Congress in November.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress passed ‍the law over Trump’s objections, requiring that all documents be released by December 19 while allowing partial redactions to protect victims.

Releases so far have contained extensive redactions, angering some Republicans and doing little to defuse ​a scandal threatening the party ahead of ‌the 2026 midterm elections.

In a message shared on social media on Wednesday, the Justice ​Department said more than a million additional documents potentially related ‍to Epstein had been uncovered by the FBI and the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan, without elaborating on when or ​how ​the documents were found.

“We ​have lawyers working around the clock ​to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible,” the department said.

“Due to the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks.”

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