Pfft. I guess someone doesn’t really know much about America. This isn’t some communist backwater. Most real Americans either don’t get names or don’t remember them. We aren’t Europeans for goodness sakes, we don’t make organized little lists of who’s naughty and nice- we just pick a direction and that’s where the thunder goes.
NORAD labels him as friendly but as far as I know he doesn’t have any diplomatic immunity, nor visas issued. He certainly doesn’t have proper import paperwork for the many hundreds of thousands of dollars in consumer goods he transports across the borders each year. That’s without getting into the rules for animals and elves of present either, insurance requirements, ATC requirements, licenses, etc etc. So near as I can tell there’s probably a few departments that would love to get their hands on him- but he’s got connections and plenty of people looking up to him to cover his bottom.
I wish