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Comedian Trevor Noah is ridiculing Donald Trump for floating a boycott of Starbucks over the company’s holiday coffee cups.
“I feel like I’m watching the most backwards Christmas movie ever,” Noah said on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”
“[It is] like the rich, out-of-touch businessman trying to save Christmas,” he said of Trump. “What the hell is going on? It’s all mixed-up.
{mosads}“Next thing you’ll have a poor orphan boy on crutches being like, ‘Santa, screw you and your horses with horns — atheism rules,” the late-night talk show host joked.
Starbucks is under fire from some Christians for releasing minimalistic red holiday cups earlier this month. Critics say the designs lack the Christmas spirit of earlier versions, which depicted snowflakes, snowmen and holiday trees.
Trump jumped into the controversy on Monday, criticizing the coffee chain’s decision and suggesting a potential boycott.
“Did you read about Starbucks?” he asked in Springfield, Ill. “No more ‘Merry Christmas’ on Starbucks, no more.”
Trump said even though he had “one of the most successful Starbucks in Trump Tower” in New York City, he was upset by the move.
“Maybe we should boycott Starbucks,” he continued. “That’s the end of that lease, but who cares?
“If I become president, we’ll all be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again, that I can tell you,” Trump warned.
Noah said Tuesday that the controversy is overblown and that the cups still had elements celebrating the Yuletide season.
“The cups are red and green. That is the color of Christmas,” he said.
“They didn’t make the cups red and green in honor of stop lights or to remember the time Kermit [the Frog] got a rash,” Noah added, calling the controversy “stupid.”
Trump has repeatedly bemoaned the secularization of Christmas.