Santa has some nifty powers, but getting Donald Trump to apologize — for anything — isn’t one of them. But that didn’t stop Gloria Steinem from asking.

The legendary feminist’s list apparently was put together before Trump outraged many Democrats and Republicans for wanting to create a religious test to bar Muslims from entering the United States. But Steinem did manage to include a Trump comparison to Adolph Hitler.

Gloria Steinem. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Gloria Steinem. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
In a Facebook post going viral, the feminist icon told of her “Top Ten Things I Want For Christmas.”

She started with No. 10:

“An abject apology from Donald Trump for being a Birther; anti-immigrant; a builder of buildings that look like big Dunhill cigarette lighters; the world’s most punishing source of Green Cards for women who marry him to get one; daring to rate women as no longer Tens when he himself has never been a One, going bankrupt multiple times in order to stick other people with his bad-judgment debt; pretending he ever hit a home run when actually, he was born on Third Base – and oh, yes, setting the hair weave industry all the way back to Rogaine.”

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Posted by Gloria Steinem on Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Steinem knew a Trump “sorry” isn’t likely, so she had a backup wish as No. 9:

“If Trump doesn’t apologize, I wish us all the gift of remembering that Hitler was democratically elected — in a low voter turnout.”

Steinem had supporters and detractors:

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