Gobble and Waddle are free.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned the North Carolina-bred turkeys that he said he wanted to name “Chuck and Nancy,” a holiday season dig at two longtime Democratic foes: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi of California.

“But then I realized I wouldn’t be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people,” he said under a gray sky, adding of first lady Melania Trump: “I wouldn’t care what Melania told me. ‘Darling, I think it would be a nice thing to do.’ I won’t do it.”

Curiously, Waddle was not present at the Rose Garden ceremony. White House aides played along to a reporter’s joking questions, saying only that Waddle needed to sit out the Rose Garden event after a memorable appearance in the

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