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The 2023 White House Christmas Decor Features Over 90 Christmas Trees and 140,000 Holiday Lights
First lady Jill Biden revealed this year's White House Christmas decorations and said the 2023 theme is the "magic, wonder and joy" of the season.
Amidst white string lights and colorful ornaments, tags with the name of each state, territory, and the District of Columbia are hung on the tree with red ribbon.
On November 30, 2022, President Joe Biden lighted the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the White House and celebrated the 100th year since the first lighting by President Calvin Coolidge on December 24, 1923. [225] The tree, a 27-foot white fir, today has 64,000 Christmas lights. [226]
Living trees were used from 1924 to 1953, and again from 1973 to the present (2011). In the list below, the height of the cut tree is the height of the tree when raised at the White House.
The White House Christmas Tree, also known as the Blue Room Christmas Tree, is the official indoor Christmas tree at the residence of the president of the United States, the White House.
The White House is aiming for visitors to embrace “their inner child” with its annual holiday decor, with a theme “inspired by how children experience this festive season.”
Though the White House is decked out for the holidays in a joyous and whimsical fashion, a portrait of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who died last week, is poignantly draped with black ...
The tree lighting ceremony involves concerts, a model train track, and visits by the Norwegian royal family, amongst other events. The tree is between 30 to 35-feet tall (9.1 to 10.7m) and is decorated with thousands of lights, the flags of the U.S. and Norway, and themed ornaments.
The decorations include more than 83,000 twinkling lights on trees, garlands, wreaths and other displays, 77 Christmas trees and 25 wreaths on the White House exterior.