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At a White House Tradition, Politics Color Everything but the Easter Eggs

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The Easter Egg Roll bore the hallmarks of holidays under President Trump, including not just the usual festivities but also exchanges about decapitation, impeachment and the wall.
WASHINGTON — At the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, President Trump ditched his escort — the Easter bunny — to take up a decidedly unfestive agenda: He fielded questions about impeachment and unruly advisers before briefing a child about the construction of a wall at the southwestern border.
As hundreds of children hunted for eggs, Mr. Trump wandered over to take questions from journalists. He addressed the “terrible” terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, the possibility of impeachment proceedings — “not even a little bit” worried, he said — and the lengthy investigation carried out by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, which contained accounts of advisers who repeatedly declined to carry out his wishes, including a request to fire Mr. Mueller.
“Nobody disobeys my orders,” said the president, dressed in a pastel pink and purple tie for the occasion, concluding his first public remarks to the news media since the report was released on Thursday. Nearby, children bunted eggs around the South Lawn. The portrait of tonal dissonance was complete.
Politics have become a hallmark of even the most staid White House holiday traditions under Mr. Trump.
On Thanksgiving, Mr. Trump used a phone call with troops stationed overseas as a platform to attack immigrants and promote his administration’s successes. On Christmas, during a government shutdown, Mr. Trump’s holiday message was bitter: “It’s a disgrace what’s happening,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. And last winter, as the White House mulled canceling an annual reception for the news media, Bill Shine, who led White House communications at the time, joked that Mr.

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