Glen MacDonald, 72, who has helped Santa get from door-to-door delivering gifts for more than 20 years, was left with a broken chest bone after the unprovoked attack.
Mr MacDonald was with Santa and a group of carol singers from the Tunbridge Wells Lions Club when a man approached the group and told them to shut up and stop singing. He targeted Mr MacDonald, telling him he was singing 'too loudly'.
The pensioner, who suffers from heart problems, had to be rushed to hospital where medics told him he had a broken chest bone.
Mr MacDonald said: "This man came out shouting and swearing for us to be quiet and stop singing carols because we were too loud. He knocked me down with a punch to my chest. I was badly winded.
"The other Lions came to my aid, to fend him off, but Santa was a bit immobile because he was in his outfit."
He added: "I wasn't expecting to be punched like that. For him to be behaving in such a manner he had to be very drunk or a nutter."
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