President Donald Trump turned what was meant as a lighthearted Thanksgiving presidential tradition into a stage for partisan complaints, swipes at his predecessor and gruesome rants about crime in Democratic-led cities.
After boasting to guests — including Vice President JD Vance’s wife and children — about how his recently-renovated patio in the White House Rose Garden was keeping them from “sinking into the mud” as a light rain fell on Washington, Trump said he had an “important announcement” to make before pardoning this year’s turkeys, dubbed Gobble and Waddle by the White House.
