Others with big megaphones have complained about the PC-ification of Christmas during the last several years, such as Bill O’Reilly, but to no avail. Just last Christmas, people rarely said Merry Christmas.
This year, only after Trump spoke up about it, and after no one else with his size megaphone did, I not once heard Happy Holidays from clerks and customer service reps. Instead, it was Merry Christmas. all day. long.
In recent years, I’ve heard a mix of “Happy Holidays” and “Merry Christmas,” with the trend toward the latter since it was brought to the public’s attention in the past 15 years. Trump’s impact on that has been minimal.