In a heated press conference today, Santa vented harder than a Republican seeing immigrants.

"No chimneys, roofs covered with solar panels, ADU proliferation, restricted fly zones, and finding where the homeless were moved to are all making Christmas far less fun for me," Santa proclaimed. "There's also less milk and cookies being offered, and I keep encountering homes with so many lighting decorations on them it blinds the reindeer."

But Santa's complaints didn't just stop there.

"I suppose I should be thankful because it means less to deliver, but my naughty list is now thicker than the Epstein files, and curiously, has many of the same names on it," Santa continued.

When pressed for details by a reporter from ENN (Elf News Network), Santa said this: "My reindeer weigh 3500 pounds, and I'm another 250 pounds at the start of the night, so just what impact do you think landing that plus a sleigh full of toys is going to have on a solar panel? Great, so now a bunch of kids have presents but no power."

"This year I even got stopped and interrogated at the border by ICE agents. Plus I was asked to pay a tariff on everything in the sleigh," said Santa. "Fortunately, the agents are easily distracted by pointing at someone else, and the tariff on free products is, well, 35% of nothing. But still, this just makes the night longer and less enjoyable."

Asked about what impact all of this might have on next year's festivities, Santa said "I don't know yet. I need to talk this over with the Mrs and the elves, but it seems to me that we just can't continue this way. It was a great run while it lasted, but the thought of a nice warm beach somewhere is looking better and better."