Trump gives Thanksgiving turkeys scathing nicknames and calls Pritzker a ‘fat slob’ in fiery White House holiday speech | 25 Nov 2025 | Donald Trump has pardoned two Thanksgiving turkeys, Gobble and Waddle, in the decades-old tradition. The president joked that he wanted to call them “Chuck and Nancy” after Senate Minority Leader Schumer and former House Speaker Pelosi, but said he couldn’t because he’d never pardon either of his Democratic foes. “When I first saw their pictures…I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy,” Trump recalled. “But then I realized I wouldn’t be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people.” Trump sparked hilarity in the assembled audience, including top cabinet officials like Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, when he cracked that last year’s pardons were invalid because of Joe Biden’s autopen. But the president said not to fret because he found Blossom and Peach en route to slaughter, rescued them and extended them both pardons, as well. He wasn’t afraid to ruffle some feathers as he took a shot at Illinois Governor JB Pritzker for being a “big, fat slob,” but followed-up with self-deprecatingly admitted, “I’d like to lose a few pounds, too.”