Guests at the White House Christmas reception fell silent Sunday as President Donald Trump veered way off topic to deliver a cozy holiday tale about … poisonous snakes? “Tale” is probably giving him too much credit.

On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Trump said he objected to taking immigrants from "hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries."

In Miami, voters chose Democratic candidate Eileen Higgins over Trump-endorsed Emilio González in a runoff election for mayor, NBC News projects.

Remember when I started, in 2015 I made my first speech and I said we're going to bring back Christmas. Remember they wanted to -- the radical left wanted to get rid of the -- they wanted to get rid of the word Christmas. I said, I don't think that's going to work out and we did it and now everybody is saying Merry Christmas again. Sentiment

Trump is facing criticism after his speech on affordability veered into another anti-immigration message.

In his roughly 100-minute speech, he talked about his love of the word "tariff" and zeroed in on the "fake news" reporters covering the event. At times, supporters chanted "four more years," although experts have told PolitiFact another Trump candidacy would violate the 22nd Amendment’s clear intent.

President Trump spoke about affordability and his economic agenda in the Poconos, in northeastern Pennsylvania, Tuesday night.

The president filed a defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster after the company published a video critics say was unfairly edited.

President Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania was meant to alleviate concerns about affordability. But he kept wandering off script and dwelling on his favorite targets, like immigration.