President Trump promises you’ll be hearing “Merry Christmas” a lot more this year

Declaring victory in the “war on Christmas” at Friday’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., President Trump promised we’ll be saying “Merry Christmas” during his first holiday season as president.

Videos by Rare

“We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore. They don’t use the word Christmas because it’s not politically correct,” he argued, saying PC culture has made it difficult to celebrate the holiday.

“You go to department stores, and they’ll say ‘Happy New Year,’ or they’ll say other things, and it’ll be red, they’ll have it painted. But they don’t say — well guess what? We’re saying merry Christmas again.

RELATED: Rex Tillerson takes a strange way of shutting down reports he thought about leaving Trump

The crowd at the Christian public policy conference went wild, cheering on the president’s promise excitedly as he went on to call for tax reform, calling the possibility a “Christmas gift.”

President Trump has frequently used the “war on Christmas” to fire up the evangelical Christian wing of his base, saying on the campaign trail that political correctness prohibits people from proudly celebrating Christian holidays such as Christmas.

“So, when I started 18 months ago, I told my first crowd in Wisconsin that we are going to come back here someday, and we are going to say Merry Christmas again,” he promised at the time. “Merry Christmas. So, Merry Christmas everyone.”

RELATED: President Trump will “immediately” halt subsidies to health insurers

What do you think?

2017’s safest cities in the world are here, and one country is curiously lacking

“The Rock” just made a heartwarming “get well soon” video for someone’s grandma