{"id":60880,"date":"2025-12-04T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60880\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:12:08","slug":"trump-admin-national-christmas-tree-lighting-peace-deal-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60880\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin: National Christmas tree lighting, peace deal, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stay up to date with live coverage of the Trump administration and national politics Thursday as President Trump meets with the President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame and the Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi before participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/24\/us-news\/melania-trump-welcomes-wh-christmas-tree-it-will-be-beautiful\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Christmas Tree lighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are slated to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/03\/us-news\/trumps-name-added-to-us-institute-of-peace-building-ahead-of-rwanda-drc-deal-signing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign a peace deal<\/a> to end a conflict in the region. The two sides signed an agreement in June but fighting has continued in eastern Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Later today, the president and first lady Melania Trump will participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/01\/us-news\/first-lady-unveils-wh-christmas-decorations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Christmas Tree lighting<\/a>. The tree is from the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest in Virginia. The Beach Boys, ALana Springsteen and Brett Young will perform in a ceremony for the tree lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Follow live updates on President Trump and national politics for the latest news, analysis and more from Washington:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stay up to date with live coverage of the Trump administration and national politics Thursday as President Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,32167,5309,9,11,10,9335,87,9045,1069,9046,9047,58,9048,14123],"class_list":["post-60880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-henry-cuellar","tag-live-blogs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pardons","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-us-news","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}