{"id":50385,"date":"2025-11-25T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=50385"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:43:24","slug":"trump-adds-thanksgiving-turkeys-gobble-and-waddle-to-his-long-pardon-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=50385","title":{"rendered":"Trump adds Thanksgiving turkeys Gobble and Waddle to his long pardon list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Summary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Birds stayed at the Willard Hotel before ceremony<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Annual tradition dates to 1989<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump uses occasion to jab at Schumer, Pelosi, Biden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned two giant white-plumed turkeys named Gobble and Waddle on Tuesday, sparing them from Thanksgiving dinner tables and adding to more than 1,600 pardons he has granted this term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The birds, weighing more than 50 pounds (23 kg) each, were raised on a farm in North Carolina and spent the night before the ceremony in beds at the upscale Willard InterContinental Hotel near the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Taking part in an annual tradition begun by then-President George H.W. Bush in 1989, Trump joked that he initially wanted to rename the birds Chuck and Nancy, an apparent reference to foes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But then I realized I wouldn&#8217;t be pardoning them,&#8221; Trump said at the Rose Garden event. &#8220;I would never pardon those two people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In his second term, Trump has issued pardons to, among others, allies in his bid to overturn his 2020 election loss and about 1,500 people involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As cost-of-living concerns dominate news headlines ahead of next year&#8217;s midterm elections, Trump reiterated that this year&#8217;s Thanksgiving meal would be more affordable for Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He cited a Walmart study that found a 25% drop in the meal&#8217;s expense over last year but made cost-saving substitutions to the menu. The annual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/us-thanksgiving-dinner-cost-drops-third-year-farm-bureau-says-2025-11-19\/\"><u>American Farm Bureau Federation survey<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;last week put the savings at 5% for a total of $55.18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also re-pardoned Peach and Blossom, the turkeys given a pass by former President Joe Biden last year. In an ongoing attack, Trump claimed without basis those pardons were invalid because his Democratic predecessor used an automated signing device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The two birds pardoned on Tuesday will live out their days at North Carolina State University&#8217;s agriculture college, according to the National Turkey Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-adds-thanksgiving-turkeys-gobble-waddle-his-long-pardon-list-2025-11-25\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned two giant white-plumed turkeys named Gobble and Waddle on Tuesday, sparing them from Thanksgiving dinner tables and adding to more than 1,600 pardons he has granted this term. 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