As he navigates the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump is courting evangelical Christians who play an outsized role in early-voting states, particularly Iowa and SC.
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Donald Trump, with an audience of 10,000 people in Springfield, IL where he took the opportunity to call for a boycott of Starbucks because their new red winter cups do not reference Christmas.
If you really want to win the so-called “War on Christmas”, the most neighborly thing you can do at Starbucks this season is show a few genuine care in your voice when you talk to your exhausted-looking barista, and then drop a generous tip in there every time you go in.
“He’s actually a guy on the Internet who goes around getting fake-mad about hot-button issues”, Noah says.
“Hey look, I’m speaking against myself”.
“Seriously, I don’t care”, he continued.
After making that declaration about one of his tenants, the businessman delivered a crowd-pleasing line that would have fit in a Hollywood script. “So guess what Starbucks, I tricked you into putting Merry Christmas on your cup”. Now, the famous cups resembled any ordinary red cup, only that it bears the green logo of Starbucks – nothing more, nothing less.
After the event, a woman with a Trump sign walked by a Starbucks just across the street from the rally. He also added that if he is elected president, Americans are going to be saying “Merry Christmas” again.
“We have anchored the design with the classic Starbucks holiday red that is bright and exciting”, Starbucks Vice President of Design & Content Jeffrey Fields said in a statement Sunday.
This reaction from Donald Trump comes with only one day remaining until Republican’s party presidential debate, that will take place in Milwaukee, Tuesday evening.
Many critics – including Christians – have since dismissed his claims as silly, noting that Starbucks sells a Christmas blend of coffee as well as advent calendars.
“You stab somebody and the newspapers say, ‘You didn’t do it.’ And you said, ‘Yes I did, I did it!”‘ said Trump.
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More than 15 million people have seen the rant in which Mr Feuerstein urges Christians to give their name to baristas as “Merry Christmas” so the staff are forced to write it on the cup.
