WASHINGTON—It was the night before Christmas, and President Donald Trump was on the phone with children, peppering them with questions about whether they were looking forward to the holiday.
Every Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, claims to track Santa Claus’ flight across the globe, a tradition dating to 1955, when a department store printed the phone number of a NORAD colonel in a Christmas newspaper ad by mistake.
