Michelle Obama Tells Kids: ‘I Think St. Nick Gave up Smoking’

Michelle Obama Tells Kids: 'I Think St. Nick Gave Up Smoking' (CNS News)

Michelle Obama and Ryan Seacrest toured the heart and kidney unit at Children National Health Center on Dec. 12, 2016 before coming to the atrium to sit in front of a Christmas tree and read "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" to a group of children.

Santa Claus is fat and he smokes a pipe. That presented an uh-oh moment Monday, as First Lady Michelle Obama and TV/radio host Ryan Seacrest read "The Night Before Christmas" to a group of children at a Washington, D.C. hospital.

Mrs. Obama told the children, "Well, we have a story to tell you -- a story about Christmas night and this guy named --"