Presidents and their families over the years have opted to spend Christmas either in or outside the Washington, D.C., bubble.

While some chose more tropical destinations, others chose to bare the cold -- but for a good reason.

President Trump

President Trump and his family spent his kickoff Christmas equally president in 2017 at his Mar-a-Lago golf game resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

In 2018, Trump stayed in D.C. as a result of what became the longest government shutdown in U.S. history as Democratic and Republican lawmakers grappled with terms of the charabanc spending bill for financial year 2019.

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on Nov. one, 2019 in Palm Embankment, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The president returned to Mar-a-Lago for Christmas this year after existence impeached by the House of Representatives and hosted a video teleconference with members of the military Tuesday morn.

The residence is expected to go Trump's new dwelling one time he moves out of New York City, according to The New York Times.

President Obama

President Obama and his family unit also opted for a warm Christmas vacation at their vacation habitation in Kailua, Hawai'i.

The Obamas "personally selected" the 5-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath estate called the Plantation Manor at Paradise Point at Kailua Bay for their holiday home, according to the Paradise Indicate website. The domicile is nestled in a gated customs near Honolulu.

The property has become known at the Obama Winter White Firm.

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Obama had a tradition of greeting troops at the Marine Corps base of operations in Hawaii during his holiday visits.

President George Westward. Bush

President George W. Bush took later his father, the late President George H. W. Bush-league, in his tradition of staying near Washington, D.C., at presidential retreat Camp David for Christmas.

Washington Times reporter Joseph Roll, who covered President George W. Bush during his eight years in office, published an op-ed for the Times in which he described Bush's decision non to go out D.C. during the holidays as a "spectacular gift."

"In December, we never left Washington, D.C., until the day after Christmas. Never. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, would ever depart the White House a few days earlier the holiday and hunker down at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland," Curl wrote.

"After a few years, I asked a low-level White House staffer why. I however retrieve what she said: 'So all of us can be with our families on Christmas,'" Curl concluded.

Bush-league, similar his male parent, would expect until the day later on Christmas to travel home to Texas.

President Clinton

The Clintons spent their Christmases in the White House.

The family unit would attend midnight mass on Christmas at the National Cathedral. On Christmas Solar day, President Clinton apparently had a tradition of doing last-minute Christmas shopping at Marriage Station, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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The family would then have a Christmas dinner at the White House and exchanged gifts in private, the LA Times reported.

President George H. W. Bush-league

The late President George H. Due west. Bush started the Bush-league family tradition of staying in D.C. for the holidays.

Bush would stay in the metropolis out of consideration for his staff, and so they could stay close to home for the holidays, according to journalist and author of "The Outset Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Subconscious Lives of the Presidents" Ronald Kessler.

"Bush-league 'made information technology clear to all his staff that none of them was a security expert, and if the Hush-hush Service fabricated a determination, he was the one to sign off on it, and they were never to question our decisions or make life hard,'" Kessler wrote in his volume, quoting onetime amanuensis Pete Dowling.

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"'So consequently, it was kind of a moment in time, because all the entities really worked well together to brand his protection and the activities that he participated in successful," Dowling said.

Bush-league, like his son, he traveled to Texas after Christmas.

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