President Donald Trump took part on Tuesday in an annual White House tradition ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, and added a bit of partisan humor to his pardoning of a pair of turkeys.

Trump first joked that he was reissuing pardons for the two turkeys pardoned last year by his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, as their clemency had been signed by an "autopen" and was "invalid," according to the New York Post.

The Republican president also jokingly suggested that he'd considered naming this year's White House turkeys after two of his main Democratic antagonists over the past decade -- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Autopen pardons and Democratic turkeys

During the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony outside the White House on Tuesday, President Trump joked about how his predecessor Biden "used an autopen for last year’s turkey pardons," which rendered that clemency "totally invalid" and in need of a redo.

"The turkeys known as Peach and Blossom last year have been located, and they were on their way to be processed," he continued, "but I have stopped that journey, and I am officially pardoning them, and they will not be served as Thanksgiving dinner."

Trump introduced this year's two turkeys, dubbed Gobble and Waddle, and said, "When I first saw their pictures … I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy, but then I realized I wouldn’t be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn’t care what Melania told me."

Jokes about immigration enforcement and Chicago's leadership

President Trump also took advantage of the opportunity to tease his political opponents and the media about one of his more controversial policies in cracking down on illegal alien criminals, and suggested that he'd spared this year's turkeys from being deported to a particularly notorious destination in Central America, according to the Post.

"My more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight through the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador, and even those birds don’t want to be there," Trump said.

The president also noted that his speechwriters had offered up some turkey-related jokes about two of his biggest current partisan enemies, Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, but insisted that he was too angry with them right now for obstructing federal crime crackdown efforts in Chicago to be humorous toward them.

"The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is a big fat slob," Trump asserted. "Some speechwriter wrote some joke about his weight, but I would never want to talk about his weight. I don’t talk about people being fat. I refuse to talk about the fact that he’s a fat slob … I’d like to lose a few pounds too, by the way. And I’m not going to lose it on Thanksgiving."

Trump's Thanksgiving proclamation

Also on Tuesday, President Trump issued his formal proclamation ahead of 2025's Thanksgiving Day, in which he briefly recounted the holiday's storied tradition in this nation that dates back to the country's first president, George Washington, and how, "In every generation since, this spirit of reverence, trust, and gratitude has preserved our way of life and made America the strongest, greatest, and most resilient Nation the world has ever known."

"This year, God has bestowed abundant blessings all across our land and indeed the entire world. As we give thanks to Him, we continue to advance our Nation through strong leadership and commonsense policy," he continued. "As a result, the American economy is roaring back, we are making progress on lowering the cost of living, a new era of peace is sweeping around the world, our sovereignty is being swiftly restored, and the American spirit is coming back greater and more powerful than ever before."

"As we prepare to celebrate 250 glorious years of American independence, this Thanksgiving, we summon the faith, resolve, and unflinching fortitude of the giants of American history who came before us," Trump added. "We vow to build a future that echoes their sacrifice. Above all, we offer our endless gratitude to Almighty God for His love, grace, and infinite blessings."