Like so many other traditions at the White House, the idea of giving each year's Christmas decorations a theme was Jacqueline Kennedy's. "Magic, Wonder and Joy" is the theme for 2023 — celebrating the holiday through the eyes of small humans. Hundreds of volunteers worked their asses off this weekend, putting up trees, hanging ornaments, stringing lights, and, we assume, trying not to snack off a huge Executive-Mansion-shaped gingerbread house. Whew!
To be honest, from the photos we've reviewed, it all seems overdone. (Sorry, Jill.) But at least there are no blood-red "Handmaid's Tale" trees that caused such a stir in 2018 and which Moose & Squirrel was forced to lamely defend. And no very un-First-Ladylike comments like "Who gives a fuck about Christmas?" Thank heaven for small favors.
So for this post, we're going with a photo of Willow the White House cat instead. But Team Biden deserves kudos for their tasteful display in honor of Rosalynn Carter. "Her ground-floor portrait is draped in black and has two amaryllis arrangements, a candle and a note of condolence in front of it," The Washington Post reports.
We also hear that Moose & Squirrel will attend Mrs. Carter's tribute at The Carter Center in Atlanta tomorrow — along with Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, the Bidens, and Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. In that company, she will be the least-important person there. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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