My daughters spent many summers employed as hardworking baristas; I love their take on faux concern over Starbucks red Christmas cup and why you should enjoy your festive cuppa’joe anyway!
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While speaking to his supporters on Monday, November 9th at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Illinois, Donald Trump spoke out against yet another hot button topic: Starbucks holiday cups.
Trump noted that the Trump Tower in Manhattan is home to a very successful Starbucks location. “I don’t care”, Trump said. I don’t care. By the way: That’s the end of that lease.
This year Starbucks has made a decision to have their Christmas cups just red, as opposed to using symbols of Santa, Jesus, bells, holly or any other Yuletide imagery.
Starbucks, in the meantime, has defended its move as a way to let customers adorn their own coffee cups.
Trump promised “we’re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again” if he’s elected. At least when it comes to Christmas cups. If you’ve been on social media in the in past week, you’ve nearly definitely seen someone at least tangentially refer to a “controversy” surrounding those cups.
With Halloween in the rear view mirror, it was only a matter of time before the religious right dusted off their “War on Christmas” talking points. “So when I get in, I asked for my coffee, they asked for my name and I told them my name is Merry Christmas”, said Feuerstein.
Cameron-Bure, an evangelical Christian, defended the company in a recent Instagram post, arguing that the annual holiday designs found on the red cups do not define her as a Christian during the Christmas season.
“The cups are red and green”.
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Starbucks’ vice president of design and content Jeffrey Fields told US Weekly in a statement that the coffee chain is positioning itself as a place of sanctuary during the holidays. Shortly after revealing that the Holiday Flat-White would come to the ‘Bucks, Starbucks has announced a new gingerbread beverage that is completely sans coffee.
