The media once again demonstrated their absolute disdain for President Trump by mocking anything and everything related to Tuesday’s turkey pardon.
The annual White House tradition is supposed to be a fun event right before the Thanksgiving holiday, but President Trump being in office seems to have robbed the media of any joy.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid admitted that she can’t see presidential traditions as “cutesy” when Trump does them because of the “legal, ethical and moral clouds over his presidency.”
Gotta say these traditions — the turkey pardon, and other cutesy things presidents do — are lost to the ether for me when Trump performs them. The legal, ethical and moral clouds over his presidency are like a film on the camera lens.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 21, 2017
Speaking for me on the turkey pardon. And perhaps it’s time to retire these silly ceremonies altogether, since their unifying force has long been lost in our two Americas. https://t.co/ZStD84Nc34
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 21, 2017
Only this time it was a turkey doing the pardoning
— Tim Rogers (@nicadispatch) November 21, 2017
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Brandon Pope, a reporter for WCIU Chicago, referenced Trump’s spat with LaVar Ball, writing that he hopes the pardoned turkey tells Trump, “Thank You.”
Hope the Turkey says “Thank You” https://t.co/w6Oe9cfnlN
— Brandon Pope TV (@BpopeTV) November 21, 2017
The senior White House correspondent for Ami Magazine implied that the pardon is silly in light of “murdering thousands of elephants,” even though the Trump administration decided to uphold the ban on “horror show” elephant hunting after hinting at rolling it back over the weekend.
“We’re gonna pardon this single turkey and we’re gonna rush through this quickly so we can get back to murdering thousands of elephants…” pic.twitter.com/5T6pB5RigT
— Jake Turx (@JakeTurx) November 21, 2017
I hope the turkey said thank you. https://t.co/SkeJ5QzYuq
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker6) November 21, 2017
Yes, POTUS just greeted a turkey by name. #HiDrumstick https://t.co/sXDEXutuPv
— Kaelyn Forde (@kaelynforde) November 21, 2017
Justin Kirkland, who says he writes for Esquire and USA Today, also referenced the LaVar Ball feud by imitating Trump’s tweeting style.
I heard the turkey, who in other counties would have been treated much more badly, wasn’t even grateful! Very sad!
— Justin Kirkland (@justinkirkland4) November 21, 2017
Blake Wexler, writer for Comedy Central, joked that Trump managed to find “the only white turkey,” implying that the president is racist.
Trump finds a way to pardon the only white turkey in the history of turkeys pic.twitter.com/cIzXKJOeNv
— Blake Wexler (@BlakeWexler) November 21, 2017
Showing her absolute cleverness, Cheri Jacobus went back to jokes about Trump’s hand size, mockingly stating that her hand-drawn turkeys in Kindergarten were the same size as Trump’s hands.
when I was in kindergarten we traced our hands to draw a turkey. Trump’s hands are the same size as that turkey I drew with my hand. At age 5:) https://t.co/GzwfufoSiU
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) November 21, 2017
“the media will never tell you this but this was the best attended turkey pardoning in the history of turkey pardoning” https://t.co/Sc1RkV47eA
— Brokey S. Turkeys (@brokeymcpoverty) November 21, 2017
The media did the same thing yesterday when White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked reporters to state what they are thankful for, proving that people can turn anything from this administration into a scandal. (RELATED: Leftist Twitter Angry At Sarah Sanders’ Exercise In Thankfulness)