Oprah’s Christmas special with the Obama’s

President Obama’s No. 1 rule for holiday gift-giving?

“I give nicer than I get,” he tells Oprah Winfrey in her upcoming prime-time special, “Christmas at the White House.”

Winfrey sat down with the President and First Lady Michelle Obama to talk about the holiday season for the hour-long special, set to air Sunday night at 10 on ABC.

Winfrey says she’s been pushing for an interview with the First Family since Obama’s election but wanted to be sure the situation was “comfortable.”

“I wanted to be at the White House during Christmastime and to experience their first Christmas at the White House,” Winfrey explains in the special, excerpts from which were released yesterday. “This has been in the making for a very, very long time.”

Winfrey also took a tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., where she discovered there were 27 trees.

In addition to revealing their all-time favorite gifts (a bicycle for the President and an Easy-Bake Oven for the First Lady), Winfrey also asked the commander in chief to grade his performance thus far.

“This was not about grilling the President,” Winfrey explains. “I was curious as to what kind of job he thought he had done and ask him for his grade … [it] might surprise you.”