David Spade is lashing out at an unnamed mall for “consciously” refusing to use the word “Christmas” during a tree-lighting ceremony celebrating the Christmas season.

“I will say that Christmas is taking a little bit of a beating lately. It is December, and I saw the other day there was a tree-lighting ceremony for the Christmas tree in some dopey mall but it said ‘tree-lighting ceremony,’ and they were careful not to say the word ‘Christmas’ during the whole ceremony,” Spade said during a recent appearance on his Fly on the Wall podcast alongside co-host Dana Carvey.

Spade, who didn’t say where the mall was located, wondered aloud why the shopping centre would not want to include the word “Christmas” during the festivities.

“So it’s just a tree? … To consciously avoid that then what

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