Camilla Jessen
Woman cancels holidays after husband cheers Trump win.
A year after Donald Trump’s win over Kamala Harris, one California author says the political rift in her home reached a breaking point.
What began as an ordinary morning of scrolling through election reactions quickly upended her family’s holiday season.
As she later recounted in a personal essay for HuffPost, the result left her stunned and shocked by the celebrations unfolding inside her own house.
A household divided
Andrea Tate wrote that she woke the morning after the November 5 vote unable to get out of bed, instead scrolling anxiously through social media.
She said she removed Facebook contacts who had supported Trump, trying to shield herself from what felt like a widening political gulf.
Then she came across a post from her husband.
He had cheered the former president’s return to power with the message: “God Bless America. God bless #45, 47.” Tate said the words left her furious and heartbroken, unable to speak to him directly.
In her account for HuffPost, she explained that she texted him instead, asking that he delete the post “out of respect for me and all my liberal writer friends.”
Holiday plans collapse
With Thanksgiving approaching, Tate said she added a second message: “Also, tell your family I love them, but I will not be coming for Thanksgiving, and I won’t be hosting Christmas. I need space.”
Her husband later brought her a coffee, hoping to ease tensions, she wrote.
Tate agreed to talk but held firm on skipping the festivities. She recalled telling him: “I am sorry about the holidays, but I cannot bite my tongue like I did with Hillary.”
She said she stressed that avoiding both gatherings would spare everyone discomfort. “No scenes,” she reportedly told him, adding that she refused to sit among “15 people who voted for Trump.”
Moral red lines
Tate wrote that her objections stretched beyond political preference.
In the essay, she argued she could not “unwrap gifts given to me by people who voted for a party that has talked about building internment camps and mass deportation.”
She also said she would not “pass the turkey” to relatives she believed supported policies that stripped away reproductive rights or targeted vulnerable communities.
According to her account, her husband accepted the new holiday arrangements and did not remove his post.
Sources: HuffPost; UniLad
