WASHINGTON ‒ Presidential turkey pardons are typically light-hearted holiday affairs with lots of fowl puns before Thanksgiving.

But President Donald Trump took his Nov. 25 pardons of Gobble and Waddle in a different direction as he used remarks in the White House Rose Garden to target two of his Democratic adversaries: former President Joe Biden and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

"The mayor is incompetent and the governor is a big fat slob," Trump said as he blasted state and local opposition to Trump's efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago . "He ought to invite us in and say, 'Please make Chicago safe.'" More: Trump pardons turkeys Gobble, Waddle in annual Thanksgiving tradition

Trump later teased that he originally had a "Pritzker joke" in his prepared remarks, but

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