I mentioned earlier that it has become a tradition in the U.S. to pardon a pair of turkeys at Thanksgiving. As skilled as Trump is at pardoning people for crimes they did commit, I worried the turkeys might not be so lucky. I half-expected him to decide they were too democratic for his taste.
But he did pardon them—and for that, I was genuinely delighted.
What surprised me most, though, was learning that Gobble and Waddle got to spend their post-pardon stay at The Willard. Gobble and Waddle, the turkeys pardoned by Donald Trump in 2025, stayed at The Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Monday, November 24, 2025, the night before the official Thanksgiving pardon ceremony held on Tuesday, November 25, 2025. They spent that night at The Willard InterContinental, a tradition that gives the birds a bit of luxury before their big moment.
Thankfully The cost of the turkeys’ stay at The Willard InterContinental is covered by the hotel itself, not by taxpayers. After the pardon, they returned to North Carolina to live at NC State University’s Prestage Department of Poultry Science. Such Lucky birds!
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