Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Trump’s U.N. laughter moment replicated in Christmas advertisem­ent

- By Karishma Singh

An Air New Zealand advertisem­ent released for the Christmas season this week takes a dig at U.S. President Donald Trump by portraying an American boy wearing a “Make Christmas Great Again” red cap being laughed at by other children on Santa’s “naughty” list.

The three-minute advert beckoning travellers with a Christmas greeting from “the nicest place on earth” sees Santa accidental­ly emailing his 2018 list of naughty children to a student in New Zealand named Elvis Anderson instead of his elves at the North Pole.

Sitting in detention, Anderson gets the idea of gathering the naughty kids from around the world to fix the problem, and calls on New Zealand’s national carrier to help transport the children to the summit on the country’s North Island.

The American boy, dressed in a two-piece suit and red sloganed cap, says he is not naughty at all and is the nicest person he knows, provoking laughter from the other children, reminiscen­t of the reaction to Trump’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly in September, when he spoke about the achievemen­ts of his administra­tion.

“I didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay”, the boy adds in the advertisem­ent, the same words Trump used at the United Nations

(Courtesy : Reuters)

 ??  ?? A video grab from the advertisem­ent
A video grab from the advertisem­ent

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