The moment she stepped out of the car, the air shifted. Cameras clicked, horses snorted, and the Fraser fir rolled toward the North Portico like a memory carried forward.Melania Trump’s return to the White House wasn’t simply about Christmas. It was about continuity — about how ritual survives change, and how symbols can hold a nation’s longing to feel familiar again. She stood in the cold Washington light, wrapped in a tailored winter coat, greeting the horse-drawn carriage as if no time had passed. The tree, freshly cut from a North Carolina farm, seemed almost emblematic: rooted elsewhere, yet chosen...
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