He also ran through some attacks on his Democratic rivals.
Trump said Biden’s turkey pardons last year “are totally invalid” because they were done with the autopen, which Trump has accused his predecessor of wielding illegally.
“The turkeys known as Peach and Blossom last year have been located, and they were on their way to be processed, in other words, to be killed, but I have stopped that journey, and I am officially pardoning them, and they will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner,” he said. “We saved them in the nick of time.”
He added that the pardoned turkeys almost went by different names — Chuck, as in the Senate minority leader, and Nancy, as in the former House speaker — but “I would never pardon those two.”
Rollins was responsible for selecting Waddle and Gobble from a farm in the Tar Heel state earlier this week. Before the pardon, Waddle, weighing in at 50 pounds, gave the press a preview of his plumage when he strutted into the White House briefing room Tuesday morning.
The two birds are some of the largest turkeys presented for the presidential pardon, which dates back to 1947 under former President Harry Truman. Trump said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. formally certified the pair as the first ever “Make America Healthy Again” turkeys.
“They’ve been fattened on a steady diet of grass[-fed] beef, to allow the smoothies and all of the other things that they’ve been eating for this occasion. This was a really big occasion, but they’ve eaten every factory food that you can eat,” the president said.
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