President Donald Trump on Tuesday added two Thanksgiving turkeys to his long list of second-term pardons , offering the birds a dose of his much-discussed presidential immunity.

After a White House speech that felt more like a campaign rally than a symbolic ceremony, Trump spared Gobble and Waddle from appearing on Thanksgiving dinner plates. He also joked that he was pardoning last year’s turkeys, Peach and Blossom, after a thorough Justice Department investigation found that President Joe Biden's autopen use invalidated their pardons. "They were on their way to being processed," he said.

Waddle and Gobble are presented to journalists at the Willard InterContinental on Nov. 24 in Washington, D.C.

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