The presidential turkey pardon is one of the largest softball events in which a president participates. It is intended as a light-hearted ceremonial opening to the Thanksgiving holiday.
During Barack Obama’s time in the White House, the nation was fed eight years of very lame dad jokes that Obama seemed to enjoy because they were downright terrible, even when his daughters stood aside and rolled their eyes.
It was fun.
George W. Bush also made bad jokes, but they were lighthearted.
The nation has never seen anything like an angry and failing Donald Trump, mentally deteriorating, using the presidential turkey pardon as a petty grievance fest.
Trump said:
Ended up in a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden. Last year he used an automatic pen for the turkeys. Excuse me? So I have an official duty to determine, and I have determined, that last year’s pardon for Turkey is completely invalid, as is the pardon of just about every other person who has been pardoned, except: Where’s Hunter?
No, Hunters was good. That was the only apology, Pam. That was good, right? The rest are all invalid. I don’t know what you’re going to do about that, but that’s, now we’re going to take some of the jokes that are a mess, but they’re null and void here. The turkeys known as Peach and Blossom last year have been located and were on their way to be processed, in other words, killed.
But I stopped that trip and I officially forgive them. And they are not served at Thanksgiving dinner. We saved them in the nick of time. This one has plenty of time, but they were saved in the nick of time.
Unless someone watches Fox News, they have no idea what Trump was talking about, but his joke was mean, not funny, and not even accurate. Biden’s pardon is valid, and this autopen thing is nonsense.
Trump was just warming up.
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