Trump Declares Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Turkey Pardons ‘Invalid’ at Thanksgiving Ceremony
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Opening the door to cancelling pardons.
Are you SURE you want to do this, Donald?
Turkey pardons, where every year the President saves two turkeys from being killed and eaten. These do not open the door to anything.
Who's to say trump doesn't declair Biden as his family a bunch of jive busta turkeys?
You can't keep thinking in the old ways where things need to be legal or make sense for the GOP to blindly follow.
d’éclair
If Biden didn't say "No take backs", then pardons can definitely be canceled. That's what SCOTUS told me.
What is his obsession with “auto pen”?
Projection.
Trying to cast doubt on anything Biden signed into law.
If he's successful the democrats better spend just as much time reversing anything Trump has signed too.
Narrator voice "They won't."
Ha!
Just need to declare sharpies as an invalid signing instrument and that wipes everything Trump ever did.
That seems like it should be their platform. Retcon back to 2016, and repeal citizens United
That's still only a start.
And by extension, setting precedent on repealing laws based on procedural nitpicks rather than substance, meaning a LOT more laws might be up for debate.
They should be doing that anyways.
You start with the result you want and work backwards:
C. Everything Biden did should be undone.
B. Biden did something frequently
A. Say any use of innocuous thing is invalidated
You see it a lot online, when people say X is true because of Y. But if they admit Y is flawed, that doesn't change their mind about X. They'll just invent a new reason.
He takes great pride in his own stupid signature and is offended that others don't give a shit as he does? Also, shit spamming the news.
His signature that looks like a death-metal band logo?
That's the nicest thing I've ever heard about his signature, and those logos deserve better.
Artistically, it's pretty bold. It's got rhythm, it's dynamic, it's insistent in its method. It's just that its legibility is worse than that of a Russian doctor's cursive writing, which for me is a visual companion to James ‘Blood’ Ulmer's ‘Timeless’. This is however fine for a death metal band logo — would work even better for grindcore.
I sometimes think he's just scared of the spooky pen moving like a ghost was using it...
What the fuck is an autopen?
A device presidents have used in the past (and present) to help with signing their name.
On the bright side, banning the auto pen means he would have to sign hundreds of pardons by hand if he needed to, and I think he's just too lazy to do that.
Someone needs to Photoshop that turkey about a foot back
I can gimp it in a bit
That's what Trump said
Please inform me what that would accomplish?
Jfc can he just shut the fuck up. One day, I just want one day
You had a whole weekend some moths ago. People though he had died.
That was a good weekend
The BEST weekend, some would say.
All the best people are saying it.
Best SO FAR. The best weekend is yet to pass. Could be any day now.
I hope you're right, but I said what I said because I'm not getting my hopes-up for the future on that specific score.
"People thought""People hoped"
I certainly did.
Well at least I can age the bottle of bubbly I got.
Trump has pardoned a bunch more turkeys recently than Biden ever did.
I didn't think there were that many wealthy turkeys.
Only a few months to go.
Those turkeys must be immediately located and arrested! /s
Take the /s out of your statement. If we can get ICE to be distracted with this, they won't be worried about humans.
And I'm ok with that.
Haha! Yes!
There's an episode of Rick & Morty called Thanksploitation Spectacular that you might like. It touches on your idea somewhat.
The concept of autopen is ridiculous, but so is unpardoning turkeys. Then again - so is pardoning turkeys.
This whole country is ridiculous.
All part of the political circus.
He pardoned Jan 6 traitors and George Santos but he won't let a stupid bird not be slaughtered?
He also got caught auto penning executive orders and they quickly took them back and had someone sign them so they weren't all identical.
I thought it was identical signatures. As in, not an autopen, but digital copy.
If an autopen is disqualifying e signatures certainly are since you do not even need the fairly complex and large autopen.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void
Pardons don't even need to be signed, executive orders however do and even then their legal basis is very iffy.
Biden still enjoying rent-free residency, I see. Cool.
I find it stupid the guy who signs pardons for bitcoin billionaires he never heard of is accusing somebody of autopenning pardons. OVER TURKEY PARDONS.
How is this a news cycle?
It genuinely sounds so absurd that I'm starting to think that he maybe made a joke
He was absolutely making a joke. The problem is he's the one person that cannot land it. Its like if trump said "sounds like this guy tried to fuck a child beauty queen".
Trump gave out another pardon? This guy pardons more than my deaf aunt.
It's a thanksgiving tradition to pardon a turkey, but he already pardoned Giuliani so he had to find another one
How fucking petty is this turd?!
I bet his last words he speaks before flatlining is “Biden did this!”
"Jeff, my friend, I'll see you soon"
Pretty sure the turkey Trump pardoned was on the Epstein list.
Well now I'm trying to think of turkey puns that relate to epstein....
Trump and the turkey both went "gobble gobble"?
Secret Service had to tackle and restrain the White House head Chef who confused the Thanksgiving main dish for the President's turkey neck
Nussy.
The obese pedophile rapist felon also called Pritzger 'fat'.
Why pardon the turkeys? What the fuck did they even do?
Besides, you don't pardon your food, you eat them.
Its a silly and harmless tradition. I wasnt aware of it's existence until the movie Free Birds.
They're being pardoned from being eaten
Yes it's silly but sometimes silly is good
What a f-ing loser lmao... this guy
I read that in Jimmy Pestos voice, talking about Bob.
Ah, who are we kidding? Jimmy Pesto is clearly a red hat with white text wearing S.O.B.
I assume you know, but Jimmy Pesto's original voice actor was fired and (too briefly) imprisoned for Jan 6. He's literally one of the traitorous turkeys Trump pardoned.
.............you just explained the joke. Good job.
Aw, thanks! 😊
He’s such an asshole.
Right? What else could he possibly be celebrating with that but death? "Oh, these turkeys will not escape ME!" Uh, good for you, you Machiavellian shit stain.
nothing like useless complaints from a grandpa
Lemme tell you what’s wrong with your generation.
Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.
"We're going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkies off the menu."
This is fowl play!
first they came for the turkeys, but I did not speak out because I was not a turkey...
I think you’re a turkey.
Turkeys are such smart and beautiful creatures. They are so charismatic and loyal, too. Being called a turkey is the highest honor. They are also really fun at parties and very helpful and kind and wise.
Exactly.
What an idiot. Next thing he’ll be calling entire years invalid or some idiotic crap.
Of course cock sucking is completely valid uwu
dem turkeys gotta stick together, ya know
No! Not these Epstein files! The other ones!
Aaahhh Cheeto, you always know how to ruin every even bby starting to bitch about Biden.
I am so happy that I do not live in your head, it must be so sad, so full of hate and anger.
Why is this news? Stop clogging up Lemmy with this bullshit distraction from the Epstein files. Who the hell is upvoting this non-story? I'm reporting this post.
... this is Not the Onion, not a serious news community.
I realize that but NotTheOnion is still a place for real news articles.