First Lady Melania Trump took a stroll outside the White House earlier this week to welcome the 2025 White House Christmas tree, kicking off the beginning of the holiday season for the first family. And this sucker is huge. We’re talking Griswold family big. Melania, 55, received the tree, which traveled all the way from Korson’s Tree Farms in Michigan.
Liberal media outlets, like the Grinches they are, wasted no time finding something they could complain about, immediately raking Melania over the coals for her past comments about former Christmases spent in the White House during her husband’s first term in office. Apparently, partisan politics don’t go on Christmas break.
Melania circled the tree giving it a once over before posing with it for pictures. “It’s a beautiful tree,” the first lady said in video footage captured of the tree’s reception. The first lady, looking classy and beautiful as usual, sported a cream-colored overcoat and dark red gloves, taking a moment to shake hands with one of the drivers who delivered the tree.
Korson’s Tree Farms is one of the most renowned Christmas tree farms in the country, having won the 2025 Grand Champion Growers title from the National Christmas Tree Association — yes, such a thing does exist — making it the first farm from the Great Lake State to do so since 1985.
For close to 60 years, the winning farm has provided the White House’s official Christmas tree, which was chosen in September by the White House’s superintendent of grounds, Dale Haney. The arrival of the tree means that we’ll soon be delighted by the first lady’s 2025 Christmas decorations. During her first year of President Trump’s term, Melania went with a classy traditional style of decor, but decided to try something a little different in 2018.
The first lady chose 40 red cones, cone-shaped Christmas trees, in a style she referred to as “American treasures.” Leftists immediately began to speculate her choice of decor was inspired by the popular liberal television show, The Handmaid’s Tale, which Democrats co-opted for many of their pro-abortion protests and demonstrations.
The White House took an opportunity at the time to address all the speculation and explained the symbolism behind the bold choices, saying the red was a reference to “pales, or stripes, found in the presidential seal designed by our Founding Fathers” and also serves as a “symbol of valor and bravery,” according to People.
"*" indicates required fields
“I think they look fantastic. I hope everybody will come over and visit it. In real life, they look even more beautiful. You are all welcome to visit the White House, the people’s house,” Melania went on to say of her 2018 Christmas decor, explaining that everyone has “a different taste.”
On October 8, Melania gave a sneak peek at what we could expect from her choice of holiday decor in a short clip posted to social media platform X. The video featured the first lady arranging a gold-themed Christmas display decked out with garlands and other ornaments.
Just a few weeks later, the White House revealed the first lady’s Halloween decor. Rather than play into the spookier, typically horror-themed elements of the season, Melania lined the stairs and walkways outside with pumpkins and fall leaves.
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video