Donald Trump, the ever-outspoken Republican presidential candidate, took aim at a new target Monday night: the controversial minimalist cups that Starbucks is using this holiday season.
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But with the release of Red Cups last Sunday, coffee lovers, specifically a few of the Christian ones, have noticed one thing about the traditional holiday cup: its design defeats its goal as it shows nothing about Christmas. He says, “I’ll probably be fielding a few angry emails about my take on the Starbucks controversy – but should we really expect a secular company to embrace Christianity?” “That’s the end of that lease, but who cares?” He posted a video on Facebook November 5 saying he’d walked into an Arizona Starbucks legally carrying a gun, ordered a drink and told the barista his name was “Merry Christmas”. “I don’t remember Starbucks ever being a Christian company, do you?” she wrote.
Jeffrey Fields, the vice president for design and content at Starbucks, said in a statement that the company “wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories”. “They didn’t make the cups red and green in honor of stoplights or to remember the time that Kermit [the Frog] got a rash”. Trump said at a rally in Springfield, Illinois. No more Merry Christmas on Starbucks.
“Starbucks has become a place of sanctuary during the holidays”.
Starbucks says the blank canvas allows customers to “tell their Christmas stories in their own way” by adding their own designs.
The decision has, not surprisingly, prompted right-wing Christmas supporters to accuse Starbucks of joining the war against Christmas. But when an worldwide company, like Starbucks, doesn’t slap a picture of Jesus on their holiday cups as a way to be more inclusive, the Christian community refuses to extend this same mindset.
In fact, a few have pointed out that Starbucks carries a special “Christmas blend” coffee.
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“I think in the age of political correctness we’ve become so open-minded our brains have literally fallen out of our head”, he said.
